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Feb. 25th, 2006 09:22 pmToday's teaching was happy and is finished. Next week I am already a class down because we didn't get enough enrolments in the Jewish Literature course. Nearly enough, but not quite. I still don't know if there were enough people for the Medieval Women course. I do hope there were, because that one is a lot of fun. It's one of those courses that students stop me on the street to reminisce about, three years later.
I have a couple of daytime courses happening in theory, but in practise March is one of those months and one never knows. If they all happen I get a social life and to buy books. If they don't, my finances are rather more precarious.
I had forgotten I had any teaching scheduled, to be honest, because March last year was such a wipeout. April is the wipeout this year, so I am hoping that some of my courses happen. Let me add a gratuitous advertisement here, just in case. You can find my evening and weekend courses (including Medieval Women) here: http://www.anu.edu.au/cce/cecourses/index.php , and you can find my professional ed courses here: http://www.anu.edu.au/cce/pdcourses/index.php .
End of advertisement and back to normal grouching. I don't think I will ever be terribly gracious about the balancing act that is the teaching/writing year. If I had the health to get a day job, I would, but I can't do day job plus the things I love because of the health issues. It's funny, I still have friends who want me to get that 9-5 job because regular income is more important to them than happiness. Not true, they are just better at extracting happiness from specific situations than I am.
I get my happiness from research and from writing and from teaching. For instance, how could anyone not be happy when a ten year old girl, playing with a metallic pink pen topped by pink fluff and a butterfly, looked up and asked me entirely seriously - we were sorting out how long ago the Middle Ages were - "Isn't time an illusion?".
I have a couple of daytime courses happening in theory, but in practise March is one of those months and one never knows. If they all happen I get a social life and to buy books. If they don't, my finances are rather more precarious.
I had forgotten I had any teaching scheduled, to be honest, because March last year was such a wipeout. April is the wipeout this year, so I am hoping that some of my courses happen. Let me add a gratuitous advertisement here, just in case. You can find my evening and weekend courses (including Medieval Women) here: http://www.anu.edu.au/cce/cecourses/index.php , and you can find my professional ed courses here: http://www.anu.edu.au/cce/pdcourses/index.php .
End of advertisement and back to normal grouching. I don't think I will ever be terribly gracious about the balancing act that is the teaching/writing year. If I had the health to get a day job, I would, but I can't do day job plus the things I love because of the health issues. It's funny, I still have friends who want me to get that 9-5 job because regular income is more important to them than happiness. Not true, they are just better at extracting happiness from specific situations than I am.
I get my happiness from research and from writing and from teaching. For instance, how could anyone not be happy when a ten year old girl, playing with a metallic pink pen topped by pink fluff and a butterfly, looked up and asked me entirely seriously - we were sorting out how long ago the Middle Ages were - "Isn't time an illusion?".