Look who's back in town

After spending a few days out of town, I'm back at school and back on the Internet -- not that I contribute much to raising the intellectual bar in cyberspace. Since I've been gone, though, my grading has stacked up. Now I've got to get caught up.

It never ends.

Tiredness

I read an article about remedial classes at the college level. I was really angry as a result. I ripped the story out of the newspaper so that I could blog about it at the first opportunity.

That would be now.

Sadly, I can't muster the energy to pick the thing up out of my book bag.

Saturday Shakespeare

He hath indeed better bettered expectation than you must expect of me to tell you how.

Much Ado About Nothing 1.1.12-13

The day goes on

School is over for the day, but I'm still, like most teachers, doing school stuff. Specifically, I'm getting my materials ready and going over the lesson plan for a night class I teach. The campus is some distance from both home and school, but I enjoy the older (mostly nontraditional) students. The extra money is nice too. I miss The Woman though on these long evenings. I miss Chaos and Mayhem too. They'll be at the school where she teaches, wrapped up in more lesson plans, materials, and the kids' homework.

Teaching school is a lifestyle choice. I'm convinced of it.

Saturday Shakespeare

O, how full of briars is this working-day world!

As You Like It 1.3.9

Just read

I must be on a Pratchett kick. Having wrapped up The Hogfather, I’ve now finished off Pratchett’s 1991 Reaper Man. This time, instead of filling in for the Hogfather, Death gets fired and ends up working as a farm hand. He’s a little odd, but quite good with the harvesting. Like The Hogfather, Reaper Man is another romp (a Pratchett specialty), this time through Western ideas about death. Death himself is, as always, droll, compassionate in his own way, and sweetly vulnerable.

Read it already.