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THINGS HAVE CHANGED:

Since I am no longer a professor in the classroom, this blog is changing focus. (I may at some future date change platforms, too, but not yet). I am now (as of May 2019) playing around with the idea of using this blog as a place to talk about the struggles of writing creatively. Those of you who have been following (or dipping in periodically) know that I've already been doing a little of that, but now the change is official. I don't write every day--yet--so I won't post to the blog every day--yet. But please do check in from time to time, if you're interested in this new phase in my life.


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Thursday, October 4, 2012

Briefly, on the fly

I have to be out of here in about 5 minutes in order to get to an appointment, but very quickly:

Today, the earlier 102 outshone the later one by at least one order of magnitude. They're embarking on poetry, and they're doing better than they think they are, but in the second class, not only were many of them afraid to share their ideas (afraid of looking stupid), it was murderously hot and humid in the classroom, which has a stultifying effect on student brains (and professor brains, too). But they did OK. Still, the mysteries of class chemistry: depending on who is there and who is not, the experience is decidedly different.

I had a slow morning getting out of the house (bliss) and still managed to get through some of the stack of Short Story assignments I need to grade by Monday. I've got a dance-filled weekend planned, and I'm hoping I can do it all and still finish all the marking.

I did forget to have an important handout ready for the students today--but oh well. I'd love to adjust the syllabus to give us more time with the poetry section, but I'm not sure I can.... Well, we'll see.

But now, gotta go. More on the flip side.

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