Eye of the Storm

It's my first full week of teaching fall term, and of course introductory lectures tend to be rather low muss low fuss, comparatively -- still, it's easy to see that Tuesdays will be my most demanding days, since I am teaching on both sides of the Bay on Tuesdays, a three hour critical theory survey lecture in the City and then my Green discourse course at Berkeley hours later, at five. Over the summer I was doing this three days a week, with little time to make the commute between courses on either side of the Bay, and it took its toll -- but this Fall it's only once a week, and the gap between is langourous and long. The strangest thing is going to be filling the five hours between end-of-lecture in the City and the class here at Cal -- a commute and office hours only go so far. Perhaps I should take up cat-napping...