Somehow it has just worked out that I am not gonna have to teach my class for the first week and a half of classes. The other prof. was still on Christmas vacation last Thursday, so we had arranged to show a video. (It was a really good one! Thomas Friedman interviewing all kinds of people in the Middle East.) Tomorrow we have a guest speaker coming from MTW to talk about Islam, and Dr. H. is going to finish up Islam on Thursday. It makes a ton of sense to me, her master's is in Islamic studies. So yeah, she'd better teach that.
I am really relieved. I had planned on coming back from Christmas and really getting my act together, but I spent the first five days of the new year dealing with an upper respiratory infection--nasty. So now I can write a syllabus, decide how many tests I'm giving, and do tons of reading. Ok, I'm gonna do some of that reading instead of blathering on about it.
Posted by mike at January 12, 2004 04:41 PM