Yesterday turned into a complete shit show. Here's the story:
The classes I am teaching Mon-Weds this week are ones I have inherited from other people. I have been spending the last six months trying to make them something workable. The problem and reason they moved to me is the original persons teaching them are not instructors. They are really sharp technical folks but horrible teachers. Most importantly, they would teach the classes slightly ad-hoc as they weren't the kind of people to use PowerPoint slides or have formal written demos. This is what I have been doing most of the year. Taking their ragtag pieces and making them into proper repeatable courseware. The problem is now we have 5 classes for the topic, but there is a lot of overlap. I was told to make them stand alone classes. Marketing however is still selling them as a three day bundle AND they are using the old description as provided by original deliverer. This means that what the students signed up for and what I was prepared to teach, don't align. I ended up doing an on the fly set of material culled from three different classes. Nice, huh? It made for a really rough day. The best part is I have potentially one more day of that! Oh boy!
Once again I finished hella late and by the time I sat down to eat it was 7pm, watched a little tv, and went off to bed.
Tonight I will go to bed pretty much right after class since I have to be up at 2:30am tomorrow. Almost there. Stay on target.
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