Probably Should Have....
I probably should have talked a bit yesterday about why I have been absent for a bit:
- Not really much interesting to tell, however.
- I felt quite "low" emotionally during much of last week from a variety of concerns.
- I did continue to run (by brute force of will on myself..... not that I was enthused about running last week)
- I spent far too damn much time on the computer, adjusting dates for LMS's of my five classes (yes, Pat asked if I have five actual classes this semester..... yes...... FIVE.... two of which have laboratory sections as well. But.... one is a seminar (which is really just a group discussion), so there is not much planning for that one. A reminder in case you forgot.... an LMS is a "learning management system" which is "1984-speak" for an "electronic classroom" or even better stated.... a STORAGE SPOT... for STUFF for a course.
Over the course of the long evening, I also allowed myself to indulge in three (yes.... THREE) delightful gin-and-tonics. I think it has been at least four years, perhaps five since I had a gin-and-tonic.
Saturday morning, I felt tremendously better emotionally. And, the weekend turned out to be very nice overall as a result!
PipeTobacco
3 Comments:
That was a nice change for you!
Off topic: I know you keep things very private, but it would be nice to actually see your glorious beard.
The 50th sounds wonderful! Yummy food too. 5 classes! That seems like too many, although the seminar doesn't require the extensive prep.
Isn't "Learning Management System" really a euphemism for "Professor Management System"? Not only does a LMS allow a student to proceed through a course with greatly reduced interaction with a professor than used to be the norm; it requires the professor to adjust his course content to conform to the limitations of the LMS. Isn't this exactly what university administrators would want to promote if their goal was to minimize the personal mentor/mentee aspect of academia that was once its core, and replace it with a standardized consumer model where the differences between a course taught by a tenured professor and a course administered by an adjunct are greatly minimized and university policies become the dominant influence exerted evenly across all LMS-administered coursework? Great for bureaucrats, and for students who want their courses to be as interchangeable as items in a vending machine. But it's a very different model from how students progressed through their university education a generation or two ago.
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