This quarter I teach Tuesday and Thursday. I get to the Soc Lecture at 930 and I am on campus till five.
Monday I get ready to teach on Tuesday and Wednesday I get ready to teach on Thursday. On the weekends, I grade papers or start looking ahead in the syllabus.
About midquarter of any quarter, I start planning the next quarter.
This quarter I am on the committee looking at people applying for work in the Writing Program. WE have about 40 people applying this year. At one time we usually got over 200, no more. It shrinks every year.
I hate going through those applications. I get a headache and start feeling heavy all over after about an hour of doing it. I have to pace myself. I went in this last weekend and spent a couple hours at it.
I spent too much time making up an attendance sheet that had a picture of each student on it for my W1. I can't remember students' names anymore so last quarter I started taking pictures of students with my little digital and then making up an attendance sheet with a picture beside the name so maybe I would start remembering. I guess it helped a little; but I still haven't figure out a fast way to get the pics from my digital and then size them and then put them on the attendance sheet without having to do way too much copy and paste.
So that was a pain.
Wrote up blog entries, posted them to all students via ulists and then made sure there were links to the blog on the calendars for W1 and W2.
Also, this quarter or is it next--no I think it's this quarter--I will have to interview TAs; and I have to prepare two reports on colleagues whose employment will be reviewed this year.
Winter quarter has way too much of this stuff.
What is the difference between a teacher and a bureaucrat. I am, at the moment, hard pressed to say.
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