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chelseagirl) wrote2021-09-02 07:48 am
chelseagirl) wrote2021-09-02 07:48 am
Day 2 and already morning classes are cancelled
. . . because of flooding issues with the remnants of Hurricane Ida. While I normally like to work in my office all day on teaching days (Newark's a bit of hike, and my office is really nice, and once the Center is up and running -- which it isn't yet--I like to be there), I'd already decided to go in just shortly before teaching.
Because our oldest cat, Scorpius (Scorpy for short), who is 18, suddenly went into some kind of spasms last night. He was sleeping in between us and M woke me up calling Scorpy's name and he just was acting really strangely for maybe two minutes, maybe a bit longer? He got out of bed and wandered into the living room and sat under a chair he likes to sit under, so I followed him out and petted him and soon he was back to normal, but of course I never got back to sleep, and that was 1 am. So a fun day today, clearly.
Class isn't until 2:30, so I've already been working on class and admin stuff at home, and I'll head in around noonish. 1pm classes are the first ones to run. And Scorpy is curled up in his favorite cardboard box just as normal.
Yesterday was nice, though -- I saw a number of colleague friends and the class that met yesterday seemed really good -- quite a few of them actually volunteered in discussion even on the first day, and it's a smaller group (16, as opposed to today's FYW class, which is 21).
Funny thing: I was wearing a vintage-inspired midi dress, navy blue with white polka dots and flutter sleeves. One of my students was also wearing a midi-dress in navy blue with white polka dots and flutter sleeves. Considering a) our student body is about 70% male and b) the women tend to wear jeans and athleisure anyway, it's unusual enough when a student turns up in a dress at all. But one so close to my own? I hope she wasn't embarrassed -- I thought it was rather charming. But that's M-W class; maybe I'll try to remember to wear this dress on Ts or Ths just in case she was.
Because our oldest cat, Scorpius (Scorpy for short), who is 18, suddenly went into some kind of spasms last night. He was sleeping in between us and M woke me up calling Scorpy's name and he just was acting really strangely for maybe two minutes, maybe a bit longer? He got out of bed and wandered into the living room and sat under a chair he likes to sit under, so I followed him out and petted him and soon he was back to normal, but of course I never got back to sleep, and that was 1 am. So a fun day today, clearly.
Class isn't until 2:30, so I've already been working on class and admin stuff at home, and I'll head in around noonish. 1pm classes are the first ones to run. And Scorpy is curled up in his favorite cardboard box just as normal.
Yesterday was nice, though -- I saw a number of colleague friends and the class that met yesterday seemed really good -- quite a few of them actually volunteered in discussion even on the first day, and it's a smaller group (16, as opposed to today's FYW class, which is 21).
Funny thing: I was wearing a vintage-inspired midi dress, navy blue with white polka dots and flutter sleeves. One of my students was also wearing a midi-dress in navy blue with white polka dots and flutter sleeves. Considering a) our student body is about 70% male and b) the women tend to wear jeans and athleisure anyway, it's unusual enough when a student turns up in a dress at all. But one so close to my own? I hope she wasn't embarrassed -- I thought it was rather charming. But that's M-W class; maybe I'll try to remember to wear this dress on Ts or Ths just in case she was.