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First days
Aug. 25th, 2008 01:38 pmWell, just finished my first day teaching Gen Ed Lit and am sitting in my new office holding office hours (which I'm sure no one will come to the first day). My students all seem like nice kids, and the class in general went as well as I could really have hoped. Though I would have been pissed if it hadn't, since I dressed up for today - even wore a freakin' tie! Because this is me we're talking about, my clothes were in the ever-so-subtle shades of lime green and lilac (shirt and tie, respectively), making me look vaguely like a JoJo's Bizarre Adventure character, but I think it totally worked in the end. (Purple and green are my favorite colors, FWIW.)
It's very odd being back in EPB, though, post-flooding. My basement classroom is totally sweet - not only does it have all the tech it had before and more, but I've got a freaking WHITEBOARD, it's awesome! - but my new office is in the emergency stairwell (literally; I suppose it'll come in handy in case of fire). I can't complain about my office at all, though, since I'm only sharing it with two other folks, and most people I know are sharing offices the same size with five or six (my co-presidency of our grad student organization apparently hath its privileges). The building is still under heavy construction in the basement, where the flooding was worst, and the entire floor smells ridiculously chemicalish from the new linoleum (and presumably from the numerous mildew-killing chemicals they must have used). But the building in general smells a lot less chemical than it did when I came in on Thursday, which is good!
I also checked out the new Speaking Center, which is in the old M/MLA offices. It's actually probably nicer than the old basement space (which has been converted into a classroom to meet the desperate need for classroom space, with so many buildings still closed due to flood damage), though I guess we're going to have to move again at the end of this semester.
In other news, my syllabus is TOTALLY AWESOME, and the only thing I regret is that I can only put so much awesome stuff into one fifteen-week semester. I'm even doing some issues of Sandman! (If you're wondering, I'm doing "A Dream of a Thousand Cats" and "Ramadan," and I'm pairing the latter with Shelley's "Ozymandias," which I'll totally be using next semester to tie into Watchmen...SO AWESOME.)
Edit: Whoa, putting in the JoJo Wikipedia link made me wonder...what if I could teach some JoJo one of these days? FRAGILE LITTLE MINDS, THEY WOULD BE BLOWN
It's very odd being back in EPB, though, post-flooding. My basement classroom is totally sweet - not only does it have all the tech it had before and more, but I've got a freaking WHITEBOARD, it's awesome! - but my new office is in the emergency stairwell (literally; I suppose it'll come in handy in case of fire). I can't complain about my office at all, though, since I'm only sharing it with two other folks, and most people I know are sharing offices the same size with five or six (my co-presidency of our grad student organization apparently hath its privileges). The building is still under heavy construction in the basement, where the flooding was worst, and the entire floor smells ridiculously chemicalish from the new linoleum (and presumably from the numerous mildew-killing chemicals they must have used). But the building in general smells a lot less chemical than it did when I came in on Thursday, which is good!
I also checked out the new Speaking Center, which is in the old M/MLA offices. It's actually probably nicer than the old basement space (which has been converted into a classroom to meet the desperate need for classroom space, with so many buildings still closed due to flood damage), though I guess we're going to have to move again at the end of this semester.
In other news, my syllabus is TOTALLY AWESOME, and the only thing I regret is that I can only put so much awesome stuff into one fifteen-week semester. I'm even doing some issues of Sandman! (If you're wondering, I'm doing "A Dream of a Thousand Cats" and "Ramadan," and I'm pairing the latter with Shelley's "Ozymandias," which I'll totally be using next semester to tie into Watchmen...SO AWESOME.)
Edit: Whoa, putting in the JoJo Wikipedia link made me wonder...what if I could teach some JoJo one of these days? FRAGILE LITTLE MINDS, THEY WOULD BE BLOWN
