Final Hours
Well, the summer slips away. I guess it ended a week ago for me given that we just finished our week-long Composition orientation for our new TAs (our program and department are still reeling a bit following the loss of one of our TAs, a 24 year-old poet who died days after being in a serious car accident on her way to the Blackfoot for a summer swim; another of our former TAs was also seriously injured. It certainly puts things in perspective).
I'll be in the classroom again in a mere thirty-six hours and I still find myself with a pair of syllabuses to complete. As I contemplate the new year, I find myself still thinking about your various workshops and all the great ideas we exchanged. I hope you all squeezed some happy, restorative hours out of the second half of the summer (and were able to work a bit on your summer reading list), and that you now look forward to your return to the classroom. Please stop by these parts from time to time to provide some testimony from the front lines: successes (and frustrations) in the classroom, questions, random musings, book and article recommendations, etc. Cheerio!
I'll be in the classroom again in a mere thirty-six hours and I still find myself with a pair of syllabuses to complete. As I contemplate the new year, I find myself still thinking about your various workshops and all the great ideas we exchanged. I hope you all squeezed some happy, restorative hours out of the second half of the summer (and were able to work a bit on your summer reading list), and that you now look forward to your return to the classroom. Please stop by these parts from time to time to provide some testimony from the front lines: successes (and frustrations) in the classroom, questions, random musings, book and article recommendations, etc. Cheerio!
