bleckblog: musings of a community college english teacher

I'm not normally morose or laconic about the first day of a term, but today I am. It's mostly because one class will likely be cancelled tomorrow, so the work I've done for it will be for naught. It's also the most interesting class I am scheduled to teach this quarter: British Lit from 1780 to the present. If it's cancelled, and tomorrow at the end of the day I'll know, that means I pick up another fyc, which doesn't excite me. All those papers! Twice as many. Well, such is life. While I'll spend more time reading and responding to essays, I'll also spend less time doing prep for classes, and I do have an intern to teach at least half of my other fyc. Really, the biggest concern right now is not knowing whether I should continue my work in the lit class or just get going with the comp class. I'll know tomorrow.