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Aug. 29th, 2012 01:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gillpolackMy Wednesday class is - as ever - wonderful. One of my students asked me on the way to the bus how on earth I managed to teach different things every week for seven years. I was a t a loss to answer, for today we spent 40 minutes looking at prefixes and suffices and examining the structure of 'antidisestablishmentarianism' as we've done several times. It appears that even when I teach the same subject (for there are new students and the basics must be covered) they appear to be new and different. This is either very, very good or very, very bad.
The rest of today is all the stuff I didn't do earlier in the week. By tomorrow I shall be entirely up to date, largely through lack of choice. It's about eight hours of work, so it should be possible, however, I'm going to hedge my bets by taking my time out now, so I start the eight hours rested. I don't get my coffee until then, either, so it's all carefully planned. One cup of coffee at the beginning of each of the biggest tasks and no cheating in search of extra caffeine by dodging between tasks. Dinner is mostly cooked. Teaching for tomorrow is half-prepared. In other words, no excuses!
The rest of today is all the stuff I didn't do earlier in the week. By tomorrow I shall be entirely up to date, largely through lack of choice. It's about eight hours of work, so it should be possible, however, I'm going to hedge my bets by taking my time out now, so I start the eight hours rested. I don't get my coffee until then, either, so it's all carefully planned. One cup of coffee at the beginning of each of the biggest tasks and no cheating in search of extra caffeine by dodging between tasks. Dinner is mostly cooked. Teaching for tomorrow is half-prepared. In other words, no excuses!