5 on a Friday: Things

 1. I am teaching a class in the fall that I have not taught in 3 years, and I was working on the online parts of the class yesterday (it is a hybrid class, so the students get a lot of content online and then we meet once a week for fun stuff). ANYWAY. I spent ALL DAY working on the content, updating some videos, making sure the whole thing meets federal accessibility standards, (kind of a pain with PDFs, honestly) etc etc etc. AND THEN. AT THE EVERY END OF THE DAY, I realized I usually teach the course on a Monday/Wednesday schedule, but this fall? TUESDAY/THURSDAY. OMGGGGGGGGG. My brother said I should just use Copilot to find and replace every Monday and Wednesday in all of my lectures and videos with a robot voice dub saying Tuesday and Thursday over it. 

Also! The discussion prompt for the first week is to show a picture of your pet if you have one to introduce yourself (and find a pic of your dream pet if you are currently petless). And this? Was my pet pic 3 years ago **sob**

(this is my new pic)

2. I am also teaching my favorite large lecture course-- this is my first time ever teaching more than 1 class a semester. (I have the world's best job-- I've had a 1:1 load all these years because most of my job is directing a big course). Part of the new contract with my existing department is an increase in my teaching load, and honestly? I am happy to be teaching more, especially as Minnie goes to kindergarten and I have more time on my hands. I prepped that one without a hitch, but most of the magic (lol) happens in the live lecture, so there's less to put on Canvas before the semester begins.

3. The fall! When all of the kids will be at school all day! Or at least until 2:30pm. Minnie is slated to go to a school with 7:30-2:30 hours-- a total waste since Cooper and Dorothy go 9-4:30. But still! That's so much tiiiiime. I teach at 9:55 on Mondays and will stay on campus all day, since my staff meeting is on Mondays, and Cooper will probably have diving practice. Tuesdays, I teach at 9:30. And then the rest of my time is pretty flexible since both of my classes are hybrids. In the fall, I need to jump into all of my TA's courses and watch them teach-- as you might imagine, this is incredibly time consuming. It has also been really hard with only preschool childcare hours. So having a full school day EVERY SINGLE DAY? REGARDLESS OF BEN'S WORK SCHEDULE?  LIFE CHANGER. Keeping marathon Mondays, though, since they've been a tradition since I was in grad school.

4. Minnie! Is going to kindergarten! I have applied to open enroll in a couple of neighboring districts, and we have applied for an internal transfer within our district, so we are not completely sure where she's going yet. But she's going! To kindergarten! My little shadow--I can't even believe it.

5. I am going to spend this whole month savoring my last ever afternoons with a preschooler underfoot. Cheers to the end of the most delightful era.