A Day "Off"

...spent corresponding with colleagues on administrative issues, union organizing, fiddling with enrollment lists, adjusting syllabi with new information from sign-up sheets for presentations and discussion co-facilitations, printing texts for next week's lecture. A whole day given over to administrivia... if Eric and I hadn't taken a break in the afternoon for exercise and yoga I'd have felt the day was mostly a wash, yet I spent the whole day working. Those who envy a teacher's extensive "free time" should see what we do in between lectures!