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If a clump of lobelias appeared one morning with cool crop circles, would you assume aliens ... or a cat?
2008-04-01
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Today is all about meetings. Tomorrow is teaching. Why does this make me feel tired? Maybe because it's the last teaching week of term for my wonderful Wednesday students. We've all been enjoying ourselves so very much that we forgot and I so don't want to break the news to them.
We're going to have an excursion, I think. Maybe do some people-watching to finish the term on a people note. Would thinking be a good excuse for doing not-nearly-enough tonight?
Update: I think I'm going to introduce my students to Chaucer.
'Nother update: Fatigue has a straightforward explanation. I checked the Bureau of Meteorology's website and we have lots of weather warnings. I really should market the weather sensitivity. Instead, though, I might take the appropriate medication.
We're going to have an excursion, I think. Maybe do some people-watching to finish the term on a people note. Would thinking be a good excuse for doing not-nearly-enough tonight?
Update: I think I'm going to introduce my students to Chaucer.
'Nother update: Fatigue has a straightforward explanation. I checked the Bureau of Meteorology's website and we have lots of weather warnings. I really should market the weather sensitivity. Instead, though, I might take the appropriate medication.
Teaching post
Suddenly I'm a little more organised.
This is my teaching schedule for the next few months. At this stage, there are spaces in all the courses, but it's better to enrol early to be safe. Sometimes a course books up, and sometimes a course get cancelled if we don't get enough people. The only one guaranteed to go ahead is my Wednesday morning class, which isn't listed below (but I'm happy to answer questions about it).
I won't make any bad jokes about avoiding me, because the weather makes me incapable of bad jokes. I'm saving all the good jokes for my class tomorrow.
April 29 (evening course) - Medieval Women. I can't remember if it's 7 or 8 weeks, but I remember what I'm going to teach: cool stuff :).
May 1 (evening course) - Our Edible Past: food in history. This one is 8 weeks. It's the overflow course from the current food in history course.
May 18 - a one day workshop on History for Writers (Canberra, ACT Writers' Centre)
May 29/30 - Cross cultural understanding - a 2 day course at the ANU. This is called putting my money where my mouth is: I use my cultural history background to teach things like space and time and food and how communities work and how to turn the theory into stuff people can use everyday, and this time I will most certainly teach calendars. That is, if the course goes ahead. Canberra isn't very enthusiatic about this sort of training, on the whole.
June 14 - Another one day History for writers workshop, this time at the Sydney Writers Centre.
That's it for this financial year.
This is my teaching schedule for the next few months. At this stage, there are spaces in all the courses, but it's better to enrol early to be safe. Sometimes a course books up, and sometimes a course get cancelled if we don't get enough people. The only one guaranteed to go ahead is my Wednesday morning class, which isn't listed below (but I'm happy to answer questions about it).
I won't make any bad jokes about avoiding me, because the weather makes me incapable of bad jokes. I'm saving all the good jokes for my class tomorrow.
April 29 (evening course) - Medieval Women. I can't remember if it's 7 or 8 weeks, but I remember what I'm going to teach: cool stuff :).
May 1 (evening course) - Our Edible Past: food in history. This one is 8 weeks. It's the overflow course from the current food in history course.
May 18 - a one day workshop on History for Writers (Canberra, ACT Writers' Centre)
May 29/30 - Cross cultural understanding - a 2 day course at the ANU. This is called putting my money where my mouth is: I use my cultural history background to teach things like space and time and food and how communities work and how to turn the theory into stuff people can use everyday, and this time I will most certainly teach calendars. That is, if the course goes ahead. Canberra isn't very enthusiatic about this sort of training, on the whole.
June 14 - Another one day History for writers workshop, this time at the Sydney Writers Centre.
That's it for this financial year.