A Return--Briefly--to my Regularly Scheduled Thursday

My schedule today feels a bit crammed, but I remind myself that I've gotten spoiled. For the past month, I haven't had my Lutheran Confessions class that meets by way of Zoom session on Thursday morning. Today, I'll make the trek to the office even earlier than usual so that I can get my laptop set up for the class which starts at 8:45. Then I'll have the last conferences of the semester with my creative writing students and then a writing day for my English 102 students.I have my food packed--breakfast and lunch on campus. I have my outfit picked out. I am trying not to think about how tired I am and all I need to do in the coming weeks before we get to summer.The last time we had an actual class meeting was March 19, which was the day after I had my meeting with the provost and my dean, where I was offered, and accepted, the tenure track promotion offer. Part of my brain was thinking about all the implications of the meeting (happy implications) while I tried to focus on Reformation…