The students in both the 102 and in today's 101 confirmed yet again how much fun they are to work with. The 102 students did a great job of working on the poetry for today--and I let them do most of it without me circulating the room, as I wanted to finish marking the assignments I had for them (which I did, thank God). And the 101 students actually had ideas about the food topic that will be the focus of their next essays. I truly do enjoy working with them, though I don't think I'll be in my car driving to Elmira, NY, thinking "Oh, I'd really rather be teaching..."
And I have officially reached the point in the semester at which every huge stack of stuff I return is immediately replaced by an equally huge stack of stuff I need to mark. Sometime in November, that will lighten up, but for a while, it's just going to be one wodge after another. C'est la vie.
P&B was a bit chaotic to try to follow; I have no idea if my minutes reflect accurately what actually happened, but I did write them up already. I won't have time tomorrow, and I'm certainly not going to work on them when I'm upstate. I also had to do a little "evening supervisor" thingy after my class; it seemed like it might be uncomfortable, but it actually was quite painless. I need to be a bit cryptic about it, for various reasons, but ... well, it just wasn't a big deal. Took about 15 minutes tops, and caused no emotional or psychological distress. Whew.
Shifting back to the ways in which my work will follow me upstate, I may get the minutes out of my hair before I go, but I will have to schlep some assignments up with me--and actually work on them, even though I won't want to. It's just a necessity; I at least have to get the 102 essays marked, as I must return those to them before they write the next essay. I won't get them done in time for the sub to distribute on Thursday, so I have to have them ready by Tuesday--as the next essay is right on the heels of this one; it's due a week from Thursday. (Ye gods and little fishes.) The next 101 essay doesn't follow quite as immediately on the heels of this one, though--or I don't think it does. I am almost afraid to check my calendar.
Tomorrow, I have to be up very early as a phone repair person is coming between 8 and 9 a.m. That's painfully early for me to be up, dressed, and ready to receive (as it were), but it's the only way I could be sure that the repair would be finished in time for me to get here for my seminar hours--and I actually will see students during my seminar hours. One is a random student who came through the general pipeline--and I wouldn't have known that I had an appointment with him except one of my own students also wanted an appointment, and when I went to book him, surprise surprise, there was a student who is a complete stranger to me sitting on my schedule. We rarely get students from the general pipeline, but this is the second time I've been assigned someone and only found out by happenstance. He also had originally been set up with a 30 minute appointment--but my own student wanted to come after that first person had been with me 15 minutes, so I truncated the first one to accommodate the student I actually know. If the random student seems to be someone who wants more mentoring--and with whom I'd be a reasonable fit--I can always set up future appointments with him.
So, we'll see how all that rolls. Seminar hours start at 11; class is at 12:30; Advisement follows on the heels of class. Then I get to come back to the office and figure out what to pack up to take north with me. But you'll hear all about that tomorrow, I reckon. As for now, I am ready to figure out dinner and start the night-time glide. A demain, mes amis.
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