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Maybe I shouldn't have started this blog now, not with everything that's been going on.

From going home at the same time as the acting dean last night, I was told that I am at twenty two units teaching load for this term, apparently, and not twenty. This means that as much as possible the dean was going to remove one subject from me and give it to someone else, preferrably one of the part-time teachers.

Not that I would not welcome a four-unit overload pay for this term.

The dean was thinking about taking one of the Introduction to Electricity and Magnetism lab classes off my hands, but I asked for the Electrical Circuits One Lab class instead. The dean just assumed it was because it was a new preparation for me, which actually also carries its own salary incentive.

But in fact the reason why I would rather drop that from my plate is because the students are the engineering third year irregulars.

They were last my students in their mechanics lecture and lab classes two terms ago, and there is just something in their attitude (particularly with the transferrees) that told me I was going to be serving as a disciplinarian first and a teacher second.

While they were my students I was plagued with mostly incomplete classes (including sudden exits) and very little out-of-class effort such as studying for exams and making assignments.

Not that I dreaded handling them, but that I was already preparing to deal with them evenly with an iron fist, or palm.

Hopefully the part-timer (who was a former student of mine in an inter-college consortium) will accept the additional load. After all, as a contractual employee, he gets more pay for every unit he teaches, regardless of if its below sixteen units.

Session 1145 slacks off. Class dismissed.