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Oct. 16th, 2008 02:16 pmThis is my quiet-before-storm moment. I have a brand-new course to start teaching tonight. I think I have all my papers and I think I have everything that needs copying. I've done a crit of a short story for a friend and I've started sorting what I need for tomorrow. It's been a crowded day so far.
it's good I've done so much already, because I have a lot else to do today and if I can sneak some of it in now, I don't have to do it when I get home tonight. The more I can complete before Monday, the more writing time I have next week.
Mostly, though, I'm really relieved to have sorted out my teaching notes for the new course. They needed dramatic simplifying before they were useable. I hadn't realised quite how complicated a structure I had in my mind when I thought about Medieval myths and heroes. It's a good structure, but wasn't teachable in its original form. Not unless I wanted my students to go quietly insane.
Oh drabbit, that reminds me. I completely forgot the whole Chance stuff. Not Chance the happenstance thing, Chance the expert on Classical mythology in the Middle Ages.
Need more notes. Now. Ovid (Medieval, moralised - what other Ovid is there?). The Roman de Aeneas. Oh! There's also the Roman de Mahomet. I've forgotten a lot more than Chance. They still fit into the course structure - I meant to teach them - I just didn't have notes about them and forgot I didn't have notes about them. Ovid is not one of my favourite things in the universe (sorry Ovid-lovers).
Isn't it just as well I started blogging? I'm not teaching these things tonight - they're later in the course, but I will still need teaching notes for them. I guess I'd better go do some more work.
it's good I've done so much already, because I have a lot else to do today and if I can sneak some of it in now, I don't have to do it when I get home tonight. The more I can complete before Monday, the more writing time I have next week.
Mostly, though, I'm really relieved to have sorted out my teaching notes for the new course. They needed dramatic simplifying before they were useable. I hadn't realised quite how complicated a structure I had in my mind when I thought about Medieval myths and heroes. It's a good structure, but wasn't teachable in its original form. Not unless I wanted my students to go quietly insane.
Oh drabbit, that reminds me. I completely forgot the whole Chance stuff. Not Chance the happenstance thing, Chance the expert on Classical mythology in the Middle Ages.
Need more notes. Now. Ovid (Medieval, moralised - what other Ovid is there?). The Roman de Aeneas. Oh! There's also the Roman de Mahomet. I've forgotten a lot more than Chance. They still fit into the course structure - I meant to teach them - I just didn't have notes about them and forgot I didn't have notes about them. Ovid is not one of my favourite things in the universe (sorry Ovid-lovers).
Isn't it just as well I started blogging? I'm not teaching these things tonight - they're later in the course, but I will still need teaching notes for them. I guess I'd better go do some more work.