Rough Week

by House Of Sims

 We're nearing the end of the semester, and things are piling up on me. Add to that the fact that I got sick this week, and you find lots of room for error.

On Monday I was running late and managed to slam my hand in the car door. As a result, I taught my students how to do something completely wrong. I didn't even hear what I had said until class was over.

I prepared myself to apologize and correct my error knowing that the result might lead to confusion on the topic. But then I woke up with a persistent, painful cough. I had to send in a sub. The good thing is that a sub in this case is a fellow graduate student teaching the same class, different section. The bad thing is that my students decided that since what she taught was the opposite of what I had said, then she must have been wrong. So they rebelled by either doing the homework in the way that I had taught them or by not doing the homework at all. College students!

And when I returned to class, I was still loopy from the medication I was taking to be there. So my attempts at explaining what had happened and why the sub was correct didn't seem to come out well. Given that they have a test this coming week, I'm afraid of what the results will be.