Monday, January 13, 2025

First day done

 I survived the first day of being "in exile" when my building is being worked on. (Update: no construction crews have shown up as of yet, and there's no ETA, so I presume we were all chivvied to get everything moved for no reason)

The room where I teach two of my three lectures is miserable. It's too small for the class sizes, the person who ordinarily uses it (someone in English or Modern Languages) has it set with the tables arranged in squares ("seminar formation"). I had to get help from my first class to arrange them in rows but if they're back in squares on Wednesday maybe I just pull them a little to separate them, and have people sit on both sides where they can see the screen? I do NOT have the energy and it's not fair to the students to expect to move them every time.

I didn't put them back and I half expect to get an angry e-mail about having moved them, and I absolutely won't move them back - two of the three days I'm in that room I have a 1 pm lab (after getting done with lecture at noon) and moving the tables back mean I won't be prepared for lab/won't have time to eat the lunch I brought and I'm sorry, I am NOT doing that.


I may just say "screw it" and go and lecture over Zoom, even though both I and the students hate it

2025 is going to be a terrible year; I can sense it already.

I don't know. I'm tired and sad and I hurt (lots more walking today, nowhere for me to sit down in my new room, have to go up and down multiple stairs). I almost "bonked out" (low blood sugar) at the end of my second lecture. 

Ah well, 45 more days of this (M, W, F for 16 weeks except for Martin Luther King Jr. day and Good Friday). Maybe I figure out something like an "advent calendar" where I can count down and periodically get a treat for not breaking down in tears or yelling at someone about how bad the circumstances are. 

I also have CWF tonight so in a moment I have to get my stuff together for that. I'm doing the lesson so I can't skip it....

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