Primrose Road

I suspect that the dumbening (the "b" is pronounced) is beginning.

This afternoon I typed up the day-by-day breakdowns for my fall semester Freshman Comp and Intro to Fiction courses. The Intro to Fiction is still just an outline, but the Freshman Comp is, for the most part, finished. I figured that with this out of the way, I could spend some notdissertating time the summer outlining lectures for the two (50 student!!!) Into to Fictions.

My day-by-day breakdowns incorporated Thanksgiving Break, Columbus Day, the extra day I'm taking off so that I can visit a friend in the Netherlands Thanksgiving week, the extra day I've added to the syllabus for make-up week, etc. Then, I logged in to the faculty website to check on final exam dates. Apparently, the three Monday/Wednesday classes I thought I was teaching actually meet on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

Let this be a lesson, kiddies: never do anything ten weeks in advance.