Ups and Downs

• UP: I finally made it back to New York, in time for the second day of classes.
• DOWN: JetBlue put me on the red-eye, which means that I'm currently operating on, oh, two hours of sleep.  All those who have ever tried prepping for classes on two hours of sleep, raise your hands.  (All those who have ever successfully prepped for classes on two hours of sleep, raise your hands.)
• UP: Oooh! Look at all those books that arrived while I was gone!
• DOWN: Unfortunately, I also have a letter inquiring as to the whereabouts of my December timesheet (a most aggravating query, given that I turned it in on time).   
• UP: For once, I have absolutely no complaints about last semester's teaching evals.  The bibliography grad students, while not especially enamored of the course's content, were nevertheless quite content with how I taught it, and the Victorian survey kids were wildly enthusiastic. 
• DOWN: Of course, my feelings may change if I ever see the evals for my freshman course.  At present, they appear to be AWOL.
• UP: My roof isn't leaking.  (Since this is a new roof, it had better not be leaking.) 
• DOWN: Must call the snow plow guy again...

Comments

[A. G.]

Time sheet? We have to fill out various kinds of effort surveys, but I have not heard of a timesheet for a professor. Interesting...and so is that your semester starts so late! We started here at Purdue on Jan 10. I envy you...

[sfguy]

I haven't heard of a timesheet either......

I have successfully lectured on topics on two hours of sleep. Of course, they were topics on which I could lecture in my sleep, so I didn't really have to prep.