I didn't get a chance to relax until about 3:37, but that's okay. Let me tell you what. Last night around sunset, I was able to stand in front of a big circular window on the side of our building that faces West. It was good to see the sunset sky from three stories up (we're the only tall building around. On what we should call the front of the building, the beltway zips by, almost always pretty full of racing cars. At dusk they are ribbons of red and white, bustling on the way cars do. At three stories up looking down, it is silent, and relaxing to see the cars zipping by while I was surveying "my domain". My classroom/office is on the third floor, and faces the back (So I don't ever really need to look at the beltway if I don't want to.). It is a large room with about 47 desks. I smooshed most of them together in the back and have about 13 desks out in front that I will use. It's quiet up there. I can go right out into the stairwell and stand in front of the large circular window and check out the world. When it's dark outside it would be easy to see me if you're in one of those cars zipping by on the beltway.
My class is room 309. It's not prime, like, say, 2011. But the keener of you may notice that it is semiprime. In just a few weeks, I, too, will be semiprime. By then, the hubbub of the term's beginning should be replaced with the general business of everyday teaching and learning. We'll see.
