January 5, 2010
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1 Hi y'all!
2 We're back.
3 Yesterday was foggy. I ALMOST said "foogy" but caught meself.
4 First day back after all the holidays and stuff.
5 First thing I asked my students was this: "How many of your walked around in a fog this morning?"
6 <gratuitous show of hands>
7 Now since it WAS physically foggy, even the most somnolent of students shot up a hand. It was remarkable how many hands shot up. Still, it was a lazy showing.
8 I then asked, "How many of you walked around in a MENTAL fog this morning?"
9 I must have awakened some kids who were clinically dead. I had an almost 90% buy-in to the question.
10 Instant results!
11 I THEN asked, "How many of you couldn't SLEEP last night?"
12 Thousands.
13 It's sort of that Monday thing, only multiplied times thousands.
14 Ah, returning to battle.
15 Amazingly, I rose to the entire day, having prepped the night before so I had readied myself for what I always refer to as "re-entry".
16 It worked as well as it could work.
17 I was glad that I had done over 25 hours of grading and prep for the return to the classroom. Sometimes giving up a bit of vacation for the students pays immense dividends.
18 The TRUE sign of art happens on Tuesday though. Today will be the trick.
19 Not sure that I'm so prepared for a Tuesday, but we've been through all of that in some of the more classic DN's over the years.
20 To those new to the mix, I'm fundamentally against Tuesday as a day of the week.
21 Ah, yeesh.
22 I hate repeating it, but the logic follows thus: Mondays are already by definition lost days. A LOT of people absolutely dread Mondays. My feeling is this: EVERYBODY drags and lags a bit on Mondays, so it's pretty easy to fly low and get yourself greased for Tuesdays, which most people figure are easy.
23 Well, they're not. Once you've drawn your swords to smote Monday, Tuesday comes at you like a dragon. If you are not armed for a Tuesday, you will get chewed up and spit out within seconds.
24 My feeling always was that we should simply remove Tuesday as a day of the week, and people would more than likely become more productive as the week winds down.
25 Okay, so it's a pretty tepid cause, but one of those little ones that actually makes sense.
26 People born on Tuesdays have a bit of trouble with it, but other than that, I have had a lot of people agree. Tuesday is a day that tortures people who don't know to prepare for it.
27 If you fly low on Monday, eliminate Tuesday, then your real week begins on Wednesday, which has somehow been vilified with the rather tacky epithet "Hump Day".
28 Yeesh. I imagine. You get "over the hump". Uhhhh...yeah.
29 Still, I always wish my idea of eliminating Tuesday would catch on. In this day of furloughs and all, it might make a bit more sense.
30 Welp, I'm in the middle of doing lesson plans, paper grading, and lots of other things that enjoy eating up all of me time, so I think I'll just bow out. Had another DN written about this show that glowed in the living room tonight, the Conveyer Belt of Love or something stupid, but it was SO stupid that I will need to save it for perhaps another day.
31 Think I'll go on Facebook and see who has cut their nails, and then slip into a pleasant slumber.
32 Don't walk around in a fog.
33 Love you all, drop me a line, willya?
34 Oh, and thanks Jenny and Fina, for making my day yesterday.
35 Peace, y'all.
~H~
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