A Gentleman's C

There was the one who refused to follow instructions and then peppered me and the TA with panicked emails when he couldn't get things to work.  There was the one who sat in the front row with his finger up his nose.  There was the one I only saw twice...

This was a terrible term.  I taught my two most difficult classes (as in, I care about them), Monday through Friday.  At some point I decided that to teach both of them around lunch time would be a great idea, and so that's how they were scheduled.
Every morning, every day of the work week, I prepped for class.  Then I taught class.  Then I had a few hours left to do everything else until I had to deal with Angry Teenager who gets out of school at around 3:00.  Consequently, I got absolutely nothing...

I teach in a classroom with lots of electronic stuff.  There's a computer, of course, mounted on a podium of sorts that is bolted to the floor.  There is a data projector and a screen, and even a smartboard that should, in theory, permit me to write...

I am truly touched that people have kept this blog on their feed readers.  I apologize for my long period of silence.  As my career has evolved I have found it less necessary to vent anonymously, and at some point I found myself with little to say.
In addition, having just finished almost a decade of not-really-administrative but yeah-it's-kind-of-administrative service, at some point in my role as a university representative I decided that exploding online, where anonymity is just an illusion...