Today seems sort of like a wash, though I did have a lovely evening with Lewis’ mom who came over for dinner. Treated her to pasta and avegolemono and my faked symposium salad. Yum!
I’m a little annoyed with TAing stuff, but I supoose that’s sort of status quo for this administrative business. Got a feel for my first day of Lin 1 class, and then met with the teacher and co-TAs for some business chat. I shouldn’t be bothered about what’s going on, I guess. TAing is just stressful, and I’m not really looking forward to starting this again. I’ll feel better after the first few classes are past when I have a feel for my students and the lay of things. Just gotta get to that point.
Had a meeting with the department chair today too about funding stuff, which I had been fairly worried about since his cryptic email yesterday. Anyway, the funding issue wasn’t anything notable, and really worked out a bit in my (and Lewis’) favor. The chair just wanted to swing this sort of team-teaching thing for two of the upper-division intro classes such that Lewis and I split up 6 sections over two quarters in some crafty manner and cleverly get us both covered for tuition. The chair is a very strange man… nice, but a very obtuse talker, and difficult to really comprehend in most interactions. At any rate, all is well. I’m looking forward to hearing about the real funding plan soon.