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You know, when you sleep, you really ought to be able to get the benefit of sleeping. What you should not do is dream all night about how you have to wake up and prep for the class that you're teaching in the morning, even though out in the real world you did it last week. And you should not have stress dreams about sitting in class trying to finish the syllabus while all the students stare at you. And you should feel, in the morning, as though you have been awake stressing all night. This is not right.
In spite of all that, I managed to get the graduate class off to a decent start, except that they didn't want to argue about nature versus nurture, and I had to stare at them a lot. Hopefully they will talk more when they are leading the discussions themselves. We're also in a classroom that's really too big for the format I'm using, so it's a circle of students surrounded by an ocean of empty chairs.
The lab that produced the dissertation from hell has now produced what may be the master's thesis from heck. I read it today, in hopes of having some comments to give to the student before the meeting, but there are some serious problems and I want to talk to her advisor first. My hope is that he will be able to explain that while her results are poorly expressed, they do not in fact easily reduce to the "duh" finding that I'm afraid they do.
I actually did accomplish some unalloyed good today. I did the analysis of the collaboration with my lab-sister, and it is good. Not only do we have significant results, but they boil down to the ability to apply my earlier work to a lot of real-world situations. Good for me, real data early in her graduate career for her, happiness all around. Also, I made mint-chocolate truffle paste, which came out just fine.
Oh, and the eclectic sequence of "Music" is because Nameseeker has been playing everything on the CD racks, in order. We were on Musicals; now we are up to Classical/Instrumental.
In spite of all that, I managed to get the graduate class off to a decent start, except that they didn't want to argue about nature versus nurture, and I had to stare at them a lot. Hopefully they will talk more when they are leading the discussions themselves. We're also in a classroom that's really too big for the format I'm using, so it's a circle of students surrounded by an ocean of empty chairs.
The lab that produced the dissertation from hell has now produced what may be the master's thesis from heck. I read it today, in hopes of having some comments to give to the student before the meeting, but there are some serious problems and I want to talk to her advisor first. My hope is that he will be able to explain that while her results are poorly expressed, they do not in fact easily reduce to the "duh" finding that I'm afraid they do.
I actually did accomplish some unalloyed good today. I did the analysis of the collaboration with my lab-sister, and it is good. Not only do we have significant results, but they boil down to the ability to apply my earlier work to a lot of real-world situations. Good for me, real data early in her graduate career for her, happiness all around. Also, I made mint-chocolate truffle paste, which came out just fine.
Oh, and the eclectic sequence of "Music" is because Nameseeker has been playing everything on the CD racks, in order. We were on Musicals; now we are up to Classical/Instrumental.
