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I'm feeling totally depressed about gas prices, and totally depressed about the situation in NOLA, but totally upbeat about my classes. The FY comp classes went astoundingly well this week - I think they're off to a rip-roaring start. Lots of good discussion and reading and thinking in those rooms. I know the papers won't reflect it - but we have a surfeit of goodwill to carry us through the students' inevitable disappointment . . .

I've spent most of the day squaring away the next few weeks in the online bizcomm class. I've finished what I needed to do, but it took wa-aaay longer than I'd anticipated, alas. This means either that [a] I will have to devote much more of my weekend than I'd planned to getting ahead of the game, or [b] by the end of the weekend I will not be as ahead of the game as I had hoped. I don't know how it's going to go, to be honest. I never made it to the pool today - and this is the last pool weekend we've got. Perhaps I will try to work like crazy before noon and after 7 pm tomorrow (today, actually, since it's after midnight) and Monday . . . I did manage to lay up the week's groceries today, so at least that chore is off the docket.

We'll see what I decide to do . . . stay tuned for further reports . . .