Just saw an hysterical Monster television ad — I tried finding it on line — it doesn’t seem to be out there yet. It had to do with fighting off Mondays — very funny!
It made me think about the idea that Mondays are going to be different for me for a few months. Although for me, honestly, it’s not the Monday that’s generally hard for me; it’s the Sunday evening. I don’t know about other folks in academia, but generally come about 2 pm on a Sunday afternoon, I need to finish grading papers, check email, think about projects and other prep for the classes for the week. I really didn’t think about this yesterday when I was at the movies, but I did come to the realization when watching the ad that Sunday evening and Monday itself had come and almost gone!
This is my usual January break time, of course, and yet it is different. Usually about this time of January, I begin to clean out last semester’s piles and reflect on what worked and didn’t work in the classroom and why. Texts would already be decided on at my college, but now I have to remember what I had decided to do differently with those books in the new semester. I actually have a pile of about seven books in front of me having to do with college teaching and learning that I plan to read this month; and there’s the difference. I’m going to get to read them instead of prepping for new classes. Far-out!