Los Rios, where I’m teaching two semester-length classes, has moved their courses online indefinitely. Davis is also online for the rest of the quarter.
Today will be spent figuring out how to make next week’s classes work (in addition to the other work that was already on the schedule).
The chaos has upped my workload and my “I have to be on the computer” time exponentially. I’m already feeling the strain on my spine.
Frankly, I’m worried about losing my ability to take care of myself under these circumstances. It’s too easy to get lost in tinkering with a syllabus or in grading. And there’s no forced break where I have to walk to class and teach for a few hours, standing up and walking around. (I realize how perverse it sounds to say teaching is a break.)
So if any of you want to send me a message every once in a while, telling me to take a walk around the block or to go pet a cat, it would be welcome.
