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Feb. 13th, 2023 09:40 pmToday was ... okay. The Kiddo is sick, so I stayed home from work in the morning. Thankfully it's mostly work periods this week, so I don't have to prep any classes, though I *was* hoping to get some grading done and go into the break a little more prepared. Oh well. The 9th grade essays aren't coming in until Thurs/Friday anyway.
I'm teaching a new elective this semester, called Chinese History through Material Culture! It's been super fun, being like "Hmmm.... I feel like talking about Mawangdui today, lemme look up some videos. Oh, and this means it'd be a good day to talk about lacquerware!" Unlike the other classes that I teach, I've actually taken more than 1 college class about it in the past, so I'm not like... scrabbling for understanding in a panic, which has been... basically my entire teaching career lol. Is this what my colleagues feel like all the time? (They're all PhDs so when the guy who is an American labor historian teaches the class called "Capitalism and the Apocalypse", he knows what he's talking about. Meanwhile I'm like "oh shit the other 10th history teachers want to do Neoliberalism for the last 2 weeks of this semester. What the heck is that, and why does everyone keep saying the words Breton Woods?") But anyway, yeah, getting to talk about bronzes has been awesome, and prepping for the class, while hectic, has also involved me scanning a lot of giant art books. The class is small and cute, and I'm definitely winging it as I go, but the kids seem to be enjoying it. :) Hopefully they'll have good reviews about the class and more people will sign up next year so that it becomes a sustainable elective. (Thus far my Asian American history elective has been ~12 people, and this class is currently 10. I think electives really need to be >14 to be considered "healthy" by the school.)
Spouse has been very thoughtful and helpful tonight, re: having dinner ready, and taking the child so that I could retreat upstairs at 8:30pm. I should deffo do more evening/bedtime tomorrow.
Currently trying to decide what to do tonight. I should probably do the prepwork that I didn't do this morning, and maybe start grading the WWI paragraphs. But also I kinda wanna start a new crochet project, or maybe poke at a fic or smth. And I haven't drawn in sooooooo looooooooooong
I'm teaching a new elective this semester, called Chinese History through Material Culture! It's been super fun, being like "Hmmm.... I feel like talking about Mawangdui today, lemme look up some videos. Oh, and this means it'd be a good day to talk about lacquerware!" Unlike the other classes that I teach, I've actually taken more than 1 college class about it in the past, so I'm not like... scrabbling for understanding in a panic, which has been... basically my entire teaching career lol. Is this what my colleagues feel like all the time? (They're all PhDs so when the guy who is an American labor historian teaches the class called "Capitalism and the Apocalypse", he knows what he's talking about. Meanwhile I'm like "oh shit the other 10th history teachers want to do Neoliberalism for the last 2 weeks of this semester. What the heck is that, and why does everyone keep saying the words Breton Woods?") But anyway, yeah, getting to talk about bronzes has been awesome, and prepping for the class, while hectic, has also involved me scanning a lot of giant art books. The class is small and cute, and I'm definitely winging it as I go, but the kids seem to be enjoying it. :) Hopefully they'll have good reviews about the class and more people will sign up next year so that it becomes a sustainable elective. (Thus far my Asian American history elective has been ~12 people, and this class is currently 10. I think electives really need to be >14 to be considered "healthy" by the school.)
Spouse has been very thoughtful and helpful tonight, re: having dinner ready, and taking the child so that I could retreat upstairs at 8:30pm. I should deffo do more evening/bedtime tomorrow.
Currently trying to decide what to do tonight. I should probably do the prepwork that I didn't do this morning, and maybe start grading the WWI paragraphs. But also I kinda wanna start a new crochet project, or maybe poke at a fic or smth. And I haven't drawn in sooooooo looooooooooong
