… I am into the middle of summer teaching. As usual, summer teaching is hectic: two classes of two hours for each class each day five days a week. After sometime, the mind simply feels full and harassed, especially towards the last meetings of the week. Data, facts, and principles simply seem to lack order or sequence. Some dates and authors sound strange and interchanged. I don’t think it is because of my age, as I have experienced similarly in my younger days. The main source of stress, physical and academic, is not my age, but the simple density of work in a brief period of time. …But I still like teaching. There are weekends when I feel listless and wanting or wishing for the weekdays and teaching to come sooner. It just feels nice and fulfilling to tease out the lore of knowledge in class that needs transmission to the young. It feels challenging to tease out pertinent facts, ideas and thoughts. It is a great challenge to make them clear beyond doubt and to be able to profess, in addition. It is in this state of mind that I thank the extension of my full-time appointment to teaching for one more year until 31 May 2008. I just have to maintain my health…
- fgdavid 042807