Friday, January 20, 2006

preppie (warning: nauseatingly self-congratulatory)

This week I used my Friday office hours to prep for next Monday, Wednesday and Friday mornings like the fictional reformed worker in books about productivity.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I had everything for next week ready early last week. The first couple weeks of classes feel like a painful slowdown because I have to match the pace of a course with actual humans in it. I was told more than once this week "That's more than we need to know." That kind of attitude irritates me a lot. Don't people want to know?

So I tried to confide this frustration to a colleague at some point by relating it to the scene in "The Big Lebowski" when the poilce chief of Malibu throws a coffee cup at Lebowski's head because he admits that he wasn't listening. I am always armed with a coffee mug of some kind but that particular mug toss is classic. When I have one of these irritating moments I can't figure out what side of the mug toss I'm on. Either way it makes the whole thing funny somehow and as long as I can find some humor in the things that bother me I won't have to be overwhelmed with the burden of...

Anonymous said...

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