I taught my first class of the day. Went fairly well, I think. I've got three more in the afternoon. Yesterday, I was so tired by the last class that I had to concentrate on just forming words and sentences. I'm figuring I just need some time to adjust to the schedule.

At the end of the first class today, I heard one student say to another, "It's over already? That went by so fast!" which I'm choosing to take as a compliment, and another student thanked me for my explanation of something, which he'd seen before but just as something to memorize, not as something to understand.

Strangely, I'm watching more TV shows now than I will be once the Fall season starts.

I'm glad that a lot of the summer stuff is wrapping up. I worry about the new season :)

I can't think of any new fall shows I want to see, aside from Undercovers.

Yeah, I had to delete a few Top Gears unwatched. I just caught up on Leverage and Mad Men. And I wrote up a big thinky post on Mad Men and how they dealt with the Japanese issues, but my phone ate it.
 
The one thing that`s weird about the liquid pencil is that it doesn`t smudge. Rubbing it with your finger just erases it. Which is okay I guess, a benefit that it doesn`t get on you. But I would think that would make it not so useful for drawing.

FOX is on everywhere here.

Ev Er Y Where.

That paired with the moving-more-slowly-at-counters than with which I am accustomed/comfortable? I'm convinced its a deliberate indoctrination strategy.

I cannot express how excited I am about Undercovers.

I'll probably tune in to that No Ordinary Family show, and I'm looking forward to the returns of SPN and Cougar Town. But yeah, summer season was full of interesting stuff to watch this year.

another student thanked me for my explanation of something, which he'd seen before but just as something to memorize, not as something to understand.

That's something to treasure, Hil! I remember my utter relief to have a math prof (the head of the department, no less) who taught those of us in the business calc class (the bottom of the calc classes in terms of difficulty), and she would pause everything if she saw a student with a confused look on her (my) face and ask what it was I didn't understand.

I never liked to go up to a prof afterwards and ask them to go over something again because I was too stupid to pick it up the first time, and that usually meant I was lost for the rest of the hour.

Everyone else needs to be worried about.

I worry about you anyway.

But I will move you to the bottom of the pain worry list if that helps.

Sons of Anarchy starts up next week. Ron Perlman and Katey Sagal FTW!