Tonight, taught the first meeting of my summer class, Intro to Soc, Monday and Wednesday nights. I think it went well enough, except for the part where I broke the projector screen, so it wouldn’t retract and was covering up two-thirds of the chalkboard. I also think some of the students have found this blog, based on (1) the knowledge that students google instructors they are about to have and (2) the increase in hits to this blog from google searches for my name. If my hunch is correct, then hello, students.
I am pretty worn out after a long day of prep, computer problems (many hours scanning just three articles), and then talking in front of a room for over two hours. Hope to get some good sleep tonight, and then am looking forward to getting back to my own work after a lot of grading from last term, then some travel (Cape Cod, Vermont, Brooklyn), and then the start-of-teaching vortex.
Also, the soc blogosphere was me sort of freaking out about ASA. Should I really be preparing (mentally, scholastically) already? I signed up for the employment service today, which means I have two months to buy a suit.
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I’m glad to hear you’re getting an increased number of hits; I’ll expect a corresponding bump on my lunch blog.
I just bought a suit for an interview last week–it was harrowing, let me tell you. If you need company, call me up. I think I have a strong sense of what you’ll want to see in the shoulders. I think.
Emily (and others), I feel I have been unintentionally rude, not responding to comments, but that is only because I have been trying to figure out how to mark my comments as replies to your comments (threaded comments?) and I can’t get it to work, and the perfectionist in me wants nothing, rather than something less than I have in mind. Anyone have a plugin suggestion? Anyway, yes, please take me suit shopping. Gray or brown?
I have been having the same problem! I can’t figure out how to thread responses either, and have largely, sadly, given up.
And I think the answer is gray, though I’ve been rocking some chocolate brown lately, and have never felt cuter.
LOVE the new layout.
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