{"id":59,"date":"2008-02-09T18:24:17","date_gmt":"2008-02-10T01:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/?p=59"},"modified":"2023-04-09T12:46:53","modified_gmt":"2023-04-09T19:46:53","slug":"o-let-not-time-deceive-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/?p=59","title":{"rendered":"“O let not Time deceive you”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last semester, I joked that I’d somehow gotten ahold of a virtual Time-Turner<\/a>, since I was taking a class at USC that occurred at the same time I was teaching at Cal State LA, on Thursday evenings. This was possible since I was taking the class through the Distance Education Network, and therefore could view the 2.5-hour lecture on my computer at a later date (usually the weekend).
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Santa sometimes has a funny sense of humor, and this Christmas he brought me (among many other wonderful things) an actual<\/b> Time-Turner. And yet — while it was pretty cool to be able to turn time last semester, unlike Hermione I didn’t actually end up with any more hours in the week. By the end of the term, I was aching for a break. So I held my Time-Turner and realized that, rather than a symbol of incentive for double-booking, really it was more of a warning — a caution against that kind of stacked-up crazy schedule.<\/p>\n

But did I heed the warning of the Time-Turner? No. By the time January rolled around, I’d already committed to an even crazier term: working, teaching an entirely new class at Cal State LA, taking yet another class at USC, all the while trying to write a Master’s thesis so I can graduate this spring. None of them are technically overlapping in time, but (just as when the Time-Turner let me spread things out) all together it’s still a gradually suffocating weight.<\/p>\n

Thank goodness my teaching duties end with the winter quarter at Cal State LA. As of March 15, I’ll have one less thing to occupy my energies. And if I ever propose this sort of schedule again in the future, someone kindly strangle me with the Time-Turner’s chain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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