Well, after 2.5 hours on Thursday, 9.5 hours on Friday, and an hour or so today, I finally am done the solution set for this week's problem set. Yes, you guessed it. I now am a member of that lowest cadre of academic life: the teaching assistant. Fortunately, I have two colleagues and the class is less than thirty students, but I never realized how much time this job requires. No wonder even the best of my TAs have been cranky sometimes.
The most interesting part of this class is that it is a required course for graduate students in my field who are not in my particular sub-field. Therefore, I am now a vague authority figure for several of my friends/colleagues. Of course, I have been in the reverse position several times with both TAs and professors, but it's still weird.
In other news, I'm thinking about getting a mohawk on Holy Saturday. It depends how much time I have between the all-night vigil on Friday night and Easter Vigil proper on Saturday evening. This means that I will have a mohawk for the second straight degree ceremony. I think I might be making a habit of this.
I am a fan of intercessory prayer. Rationally, I know it doesn't work. Faithfully, I think it works quite well. For the last year I've been praying for a friend of mine who has been out of work for the last year. Well, the just Judge decided to play a nice trick on me yesterday when I found out that my friend now has some steady employment consonant with her gifts. It's not perfect. It's not miraculous. But it's what she needed. Thanks be to God.
The Monastery hasn't sold many buttons and t-shirts, but we have sold a few (including to complete strangers.) If you're interested in a button for Easter, this would be a good time to order. While I do like how they turned out, I'm afraid they may be a little too small for their purpose. At church on Sunday, one person noticed my name button. I am in some sense named Caelius after all. One friend of mine saw the other button and said, "I support Changing Attitude Nigeria. Well, OK." Indeed.
1 comment:
YES! Go for the mohawk!
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