New courses!

I completely forgot that today is design-of-new-handouts day. Tomorrow is photocopying day, all going well. If all doesn't go well (if I'm running late due to appointment running late) then Thursday becomes copying day.

One of the courses is Latin for Beginners, which is really a 6 week grammar session and starts 8 May. So many people want to know how nouns and verbs work, for instance. We'll read some simple texts by the end (probably Cicero, but I haven't decided yet) but most of the work will be on grammar.

The other one is a worldbuilding course, where we use the Middle Ages to construct a functional world for writing or gaming or other nefarious purposes. My show and tell for this course was, of course, stolen, but I have already found replacements for some things and others are on their way. This means that there will be fake pilgrim badges and other fine objects to play with and to help develop a sense that worlds can be real. I also have much, much butchers' paper (thanks to Rachel) and textas and coloured pencils, so there will be pretty pictures.

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My Latin handout is three-quarters done. My world-building handout is entirely done. I've even written a bunch of emails (I am perpetually behind on my correspondence right now, because life is kinda like that). Two more items crossed off my day's list and I'm allowed to eat lunch and then go to the library. Also, I'm in danger of being efficient on a Monday. There's something very wrong with this.

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My Latin handout is less done than it was before because it appears that my students can't get the textbooks. Instead of being the super-brief summaries that the textbooks will then flesh out, the handout has to work for a six week course. This is very good for me in terms of Latin revision. It's less good for me in terms of time usage.

What does one do when one is faced with more Latin and less time? One buys an enormous bunch of grapes and dreams of Scipio.

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And in other news (I haven't said that phrase for simply hours!) my new BiblioBuffet piece has been up all day. I meant to post a link to it, but the Latin caught up with me. I've still got about two hours more work to do and then there will be a handout. The worldbuilding handout just needs to be rediscovered and extracted from the middle of the Latin printouts. By about 10.30 tonight I'll have reached 3 pm this afternoon.

My response to this is to take an hour off in forty minutes and the rest of the evening off the moment the Latin handout is sorted. Starting tomorrow I hit the busy period. I will just have to fit the missed work in between other things: it doesn't all have to be done tonight.