This semester, Tuesdays and Thursdays are rough days for your old pal the Solipsist. We teach pretty much straight through, non-stop from 9:30-1:00, then we hold workshops from 1:00-2:00. On Thursdays, we then teach another class from 5:40-8:30. And lest this sounds pretty cushy to you non-teachers out there--those who read this and think, "Boy, you have to work a whole 12 hours a week! Rough!"--let us point out that each class contains some 30-odd (REALLY odd) students, each of whom turns in between 3 and 12 pages worth of work a week, each page of which requires a certain amount of care and tending by Your-Not-So-Humble-Correspondent.
(If any of you think teachers have an easy job, TRY IT FOR A WEEK!)
Anyway, all of this is by way of saying that we're likely to be a little fahblundget on Tuesdays and (especially) Thursdays, so the posts will probably be brief. We're going to try to save up our one-liners for those days.
For the lameness of other days' posts, we have no excuse.
Now, if you'll excuse us, we have to go teach prospective auto mechanics how to write standard business letters without accidentally setting themselves on fire. Ready the ointment!
Shouldn't this go in Karen's WDP book?
ReplyDeleteWe already made a contribution to that--something much more entertaining (we hope).
ReplyDeleteI know. Rabbi S and the rebellious young Mr. S. I was entertained. Meantime, here's an organizational thought. Since most of your daily Solipsist articles are not time sensitive, you could write several over the weekend, to have ready for those all encompassing, worn out Tuesday/Thursdays.
ReplyDeleteHear Hear on the whole Teaching-is-Hard Angle. I spent the day substituting fifth and sixth graders and my head's about to explode.
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