The new term is upon us. I am horribly overloaded, since they canceled one of my courses last term and I had to propose a new cancel-proof course for this term to make it up, added to my normal load. It needed to draw a good audience, and it did. A full class today, more people than I could quite focus on - though that was probably more to do with the weird classroom set up than actual numbers. I walked in to find a huge room with vaulted ceiling and windows filling one end, like a 1970s Methodist church, and students packed round tables pushed into a large square - so that I had to move numbers of them before I could even have a front of class to stand in. Throughout the class I felt as if I was stuck in Da Vinci's Last Supper done over in the style of Bruegel and then photographed by Gursky.
