mondays
Mondays have been remarkably unpleasant for me in general this semester. Here's why:
1030-1120: give 213 recitation
1120-1200: answer students' questions - this has been keeping me longer and longer as the weeks go by
1200-1230: quick lunch at joe's hotdog stand, a brief ray of sunshine in my day no matter the weather
1230-1330: 412, or, if I'm lucky, free time for lunching or spending in the cluster
1330-1500: human memory, a class which I have not been hating but rather finding lecture increasingly of the "I want this to be over" variety
1500:1630: AI, a class whose lectures have always been of the "this is so easy why do I need to pay attention" style; I wouldn't go if the lecture hall didn't have power outlets at each seat
1630-1730: kgb.
1730-1800: food at trucks
Sometime during those last two items, something in me goes "this is the end of your day and thus starts a new one". I know this because whenever after that point I go to remember something that happened from earlier in the list, my memory goes "yeah, that happened -yesterday-".
You might think this is great, because it means have a fresh day ahead of me made of unscheduled afternoon, evening, and night... You will note that unlike the rest of the days of my week, this one begins with an item which is absolutely required of me, so I have no liberty to sleep in by a few extra tens of minutes if I feel I need it. The way my body handles sleep is incomprehensible enough that this seems to make it severely unhappy. So while it is true that I have an extra day, I end up completely out of go by that time. As a result, I have never successfully gotten any real work done during this time - for emphasis, I'm presently lying on the couch in the place where we ate truck food since I didn't get around to leaving, and instead fell asleep for twenty minutes.
1030-1120: give 213 recitation
1120-1200: answer students' questions - this has been keeping me longer and longer as the weeks go by
1200-1230: quick lunch at joe's hotdog stand, a brief ray of sunshine in my day no matter the weather
1230-1330: 412, or, if I'm lucky, free time for lunching or spending in the cluster
1330-1500: human memory, a class which I have not been hating but rather finding lecture increasingly of the "I want this to be over" variety
1500:1630: AI, a class whose lectures have always been of the "this is so easy why do I need to pay attention" style; I wouldn't go if the lecture hall didn't have power outlets at each seat
1630-1730: kgb.
1730-1800: food at trucks
Sometime during those last two items, something in me goes "this is the end of your day and thus starts a new one". I know this because whenever after that point I go to remember something that happened from earlier in the list, my memory goes "yeah, that happened -yesterday-".
You might think this is great, because it means have a fresh day ahead of me made of unscheduled afternoon, evening, and night... You will note that unlike the rest of the days of my week, this one begins with an item which is absolutely required of me, so I have no liberty to sleep in by a few extra tens of minutes if I feel I need it. The way my body handles sleep is incomprehensible enough that this seems to make it severely unhappy. So while it is true that I have an extra day, I end up completely out of go by that time. As a result, I have never successfully gotten any real work done during this time - for emphasis, I'm presently lying on the couch in the place where we ate truck food since I didn't get around to leaving, and instead fell asleep for twenty minutes.