Snooze
It is 7:50 in the morning and I am awake, and as per usual, it is snowing.
I have been awake for 35 minutes.
Why?
Because, at 9:05, I have to teach.
Now, this is not unreasonably early. I realize that many people get up this early every day. I also realize that some people get up earlier. But let's be perfectly honest about this.
They generally get up for what might be called a job. They generally get up for six to eight hours of work. I'm getting up for 55 minutes.
The air is sort of blue in color. In California this time of the morning was golden in color. In Massachusetts, it's blue.
I have been awake for 35 minutes.
Why?
Because, at 9:05, I have to teach.
Now, this is not unreasonably early. I realize that many people get up this early every day. I also realize that some people get up earlier. But let's be perfectly honest about this.
They generally get up for what might be called a job. They generally get up for six to eight hours of work. I'm getting up for 55 minutes.
The air is sort of blue in color. In California this time of the morning was golden in color. In Massachusetts, it's blue.
posted by Monstro D. Whale at
7:50 AM
2 Comments:
Yes, I teach at 8am this semester so I feel your pain.
I just wanted to add, that most people who get up this early for a real job get paid a real salary.
Sorry the great white north has proven to be so brutal.
Gee, I guess I can comiserate since I have taught many 8A.M. and even 7A.M. classes -- but my department has wisely learned that those classrooms I teach in at that time inevitably dissolve into funny colored glowing pits. Plus the students start mutating and chanting in the quad.
Hence my sinfully wonderful times of teaching at 4 P.M. 5:30 P.M. Mon/Wed, 5 P.M. and 6:30 P.M. T/Th, with Fridays off.
I chortle evily as I meander into office hours around 3 P.M. after getting up around noon for noonsies. Then I usually make it home for watching at least one episode of The Simpsons.
It would be wonderful if only I could take some graduate classes and get some intelligent converse. Not that my red converse aren't intelligent.
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