What a week

Weekend.  Email from potential research advisor.  Finally.  Possibility of going to Europe during summer.  A 128-page paper to read.  And some more shorter ones.

Monday.  Term starts.  I received an email about the change of teaching assignment.  Surprise.  Anxiety.  What?  A dozen experiments in two weeks?  Later in the day.  Syllabus of a class I'm taking.  What?  Dissection of sheep brain?

Tuesday.  Morning.  Class.  Announcement about presentation towards the end of term.  Totally unexpected.  Anxiety.  Afternoon.  Teaching meeting.  Setup a bunch of TA training sessions.  I don't know that my schedule can be squeezed to fit in so many meetings.

Wednesday.  Morning.  Class.  Announcement about presentation towards the end of term.  Totally unexpected.  What happened to this term?  Both classes were normal (homework, exam, without student presentations) the last two terms.  My head hurt.  Nothing can surprise me anymore.  Done the first experiment.  It went fast.

Thursday.  Afternoon.  Class.  Announcement about the two presentation spread out in the term.  Surprised.  Sign-up sheet.  Oh man.  Late at night.  Done the first half of the second experiment.  Got out of patience.  Back and sleep.

Friday.  Today.  Nothing unexpected has shown up yet.  I wonder what will come.

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Everything is far from what I expected.  This is not going to be a term I thought I would be.  Might be more fun this way, but I certainly need to get used to getting surprised.

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