Last Prep

Looks like I've got about sixty students this upcoming term, in three courses, an undergraduate survey and two seminars, one undergraduate and one graduate. Spent the day finalizing and printing up syllabi, starting to sketch notes for introductory lectures, reading material from the MA student theses I'm directing (two so far). Usually Fall feels like a bit of a relief, a return to a more normal pace after the sustained frenzy of summer intensives, but it feels as though the load and pace this academic year may match the intensity of summer teaching, at any rate this Fall. Well, it's better to be busy than not, I suppose.