Coffee, Sugar, & Syllabi

Coffee makes things better. So does sleeping until 9:30.

Yesterday, I finished 3, count 'em 3, syllabi: 2 for courses I'm teaching and 1 for a course I'm developing (with someone else, but we divided the workload as I do the syllabus, she sits in committees and fills out paperwork. She has to go to the meetings anyway, so it's pretty even). I was up until 11pm doing this. Of course, I had CSI & Boston Legal on in the background

Classes at College (where I teach) start two weeks after University (where I learn), so we can pick up the students who, for what ever reason, wash out in the first 2 weeks at Big U. Which means I have 14 weeks to do what I'd like to do in 16 weeks (an extra 5 minutes a class doesn't make 14 = 16).

So I'm taking 2 grad classes and teaching 4 undergrad ones. I am so lovin' the grad classes.* Well, I've been to one that is with a prof I love and in my specific obscure area. The other one meets for the first time this afternoon. It's a combination of one of my favorite theories/philosophies and my job, so it should be useful and fun. Plus I've already emailed the prof about missing 2 classes because of conferences and she seems cool. There are rumors, of course, but every rumor I've encountered about a prof here has been false ("she's hard"--actually, no, she's awesome and you're just stupid**).

I guess if I'm going to class this afternoon I should do something other than eat breakfast and read blogs. Husband made an oatmeal/kashi blend with peaches and strawberries. I over-sugared mine because I was over-compensating for over-Splendaing my coffee (cause too much Splenda makes coffee taste weird, not sweet), but all was still well. I only used the Splenda because I was too lazy to refill the sugar bowl. Husband likes Splenda. It's good for most things, but coffee should really contain sugar.


*I mistyped that as "grad lasses"--That's a good typo.
**Um, yeah, you have to be careful who you get advice from. Theory scares some people because they just can't think abstractly enough to get it. And some people take criticism personally.