Wednesday, January 22, 2014
Jan. 22nd, 2014 09:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bearshortySince the morning class was cancelled today I could sleep in a little more and not have an alarm clock, which was nice. But because all my notes for the first day of class where in my apartment while I was in my parents' house, I spent the morning prepping for my class more than I planned. I do love my Dad's Kindle Fire. I downloaded the PDF file and read the Thomas Lacquer and Joan Scott articles on the tablet, while making notes.
Papa and I left at 11:30 so he could drive me to campus. He later picked me up at 2:30. Surprisingly, given the amount of snow yesterday and yesterday's driving conditions, the roads were actually pretty clear today, so it was pretty easy. The campus did feel a little deserted as many faculty and staff couldn't come in today for various reasons and school started later than usual. But I did go to the department and printed the rosters I needed and parts of the articles I decided to use in class today and made all the photocopies.
And the class itself was a lot of fun. It is "Sex, Power and Identity in Europe before 1800" and we talked about the differences between sex and gender, the master narrative and why studying gender is important to understanding power etc. The only problem was the projector was not working at all - I will need to send in a request to IT. And I stopped the library after to arrange the time for the research class time for both my classes. So despite the weirdness of the first day of Local College today, it reminded me just how fun I actually have at my job a lot of the time. I will have to leave teaching soon, because the money is really crap and I can't do two part-time jobs, I need something full time, but I will miss it very much. I'm determined to enjoy this semester as much as I can. I know I will get burned out with the grading pretty soon and will complain about that but teaching itself is pretty great.
In the afternoon I watched "Supernatural" and "Agents of SHIELD" on my Dad's Kindle Fire. I'm staying one more night at my parents' house because my Dad wants to drive me to work tomorrow since it is still a bit slippery out there and he didn't want to make the drive to Brooklyn today. It does feel a little weird being here now - like a vacation. Mostly because they renovated so much since I moved out.
Papa and I left at 11:30 so he could drive me to campus. He later picked me up at 2:30. Surprisingly, given the amount of snow yesterday and yesterday's driving conditions, the roads were actually pretty clear today, so it was pretty easy. The campus did feel a little deserted as many faculty and staff couldn't come in today for various reasons and school started later than usual. But I did go to the department and printed the rosters I needed and parts of the articles I decided to use in class today and made all the photocopies.
And the class itself was a lot of fun. It is "Sex, Power and Identity in Europe before 1800" and we talked about the differences between sex and gender, the master narrative and why studying gender is important to understanding power etc. The only problem was the projector was not working at all - I will need to send in a request to IT. And I stopped the library after to arrange the time for the research class time for both my classes. So despite the weirdness of the first day of Local College today, it reminded me just how fun I actually have at my job a lot of the time. I will have to leave teaching soon, because the money is really crap and I can't do two part-time jobs, I need something full time, but I will miss it very much. I'm determined to enjoy this semester as much as I can. I know I will get burned out with the grading pretty soon and will complain about that but teaching itself is pretty great.
In the afternoon I watched "Supernatural" and "Agents of SHIELD" on my Dad's Kindle Fire. I'm staying one more night at my parents' house because my Dad wants to drive me to work tomorrow since it is still a bit slippery out there and he didn't want to make the drive to Brooklyn today. It does feel a little weird being here now - like a vacation. Mostly because they renovated so much since I moved out.