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So yesterday I met up with Julie and Michael, who are the other two teaching assistants on the module I'm doing. Then today, we met up with the lecturers, Shaun and Daniel, and a new post-doc guy called James. We also got to arrange our tutorial times. I've got one on a Monday, an hour after the lecture, then two in a row on Thursday, but in different rooms. None of them are situated in the English school; one's in the History school, another's in the Nursing school and the last is in the Elmwood Centre, which is next to the Geography building.
I think I might actually know what I'm doing now. The first tutorial is covered by a compare/contrast exercise included in the module pack anyway, so I don't have to think too hard about it. Really, it all depends on the students themselves, if they're the talkative kind or the sit-very-still-and-maybe-they-won't-know-I'm-here kind.
I was reading some of the extra material last night and realised I've become so used to close-reading Dickens, I've forgotten how to do it for anything else lol. Especially poetry; I was looking at The Rape of the Lock and thinking, "Now, how do I do this again?"
I still need to register for this year; this is my last day to do it.
The campus has been filling up as the undergrads begin to return. Normally, this freaks me out, because I get used to a half-empty campus and get very possessive about it, but this year, I'm relieved to see people back. I got dull this summer when there were no people about; by the end of August I was looking forward to the undergrad invasion. I guess that goes to show I really am ready to leave academia.
Oh yes, and I got told off by the cleaner this morning. Apparently, it's against health and safety regulations to keep anything other than plates and cups in overhead cupboards. Apparently it's to conserve space. So now, instead of taking up just two cupboards, my stuff takes up four. And how does this save room? What was so unhealthy about having a couple of saucepans in an overhead cupboard anyway? I've never heard of any such regulations before in the university accommodation I've been in. Ugh. I told Maggie about this and she didn't know about it either, and she's a sub-warden in the place >:8 The cleaners actually took it upon themselves to shift my stuff yesterday morning; I was so pissed off at them. I'm starting to dread the flat filling up with people; there's going to be no space for anyone.
I think I might actually know what I'm doing now. The first tutorial is covered by a compare/contrast exercise included in the module pack anyway, so I don't have to think too hard about it. Really, it all depends on the students themselves, if they're the talkative kind or the sit-very-still-and-maybe-they-won't-know-I'm-here kind.
I was reading some of the extra material last night and realised I've become so used to close-reading Dickens, I've forgotten how to do it for anything else lol. Especially poetry; I was looking at The Rape of the Lock and thinking, "Now, how do I do this again?"
I still need to register for this year; this is my last day to do it.
The campus has been filling up as the undergrads begin to return. Normally, this freaks me out, because I get used to a half-empty campus and get very possessive about it, but this year, I'm relieved to see people back. I got dull this summer when there were no people about; by the end of August I was looking forward to the undergrad invasion. I guess that goes to show I really am ready to leave academia.
Oh yes, and I got told off by the cleaner this morning. Apparently, it's against health and safety regulations to keep anything other than plates and cups in overhead cupboards. Apparently it's to conserve space. So now, instead of taking up just two cupboards, my stuff takes up four. And how does this save room? What was so unhealthy about having a couple of saucepans in an overhead cupboard anyway? I've never heard of any such regulations before in the university accommodation I've been in. Ugh. I told Maggie about this and she didn't know about it either, and she's a sub-warden in the place >:8 The cleaners actually took it upon themselves to shift my stuff yesterday morning; I was so pissed off at them. I'm starting to dread the flat filling up with people; there's going to be no space for anyone.