Semester week 3 of 13: So tired [teaching]

Today is rough.

I got to campus by 7:45 am yesterday morning to get ready for my two, 4-hour back-to-back labs. For labs this week I put a lot of thermocouple probes into reptile cloacas.

I would be a lot better at that if I practiced more frequently than 1x/year but I am unlikely to do so.

Last night I showed the bicycling students how to change a flat tire. Then I had them practice on bikes they brought with them to class.

One wheel had terrible rubber rim tape that ripped, so I wound up running back to my office for some duct tape instead.

Out of all the groups, the group that practiced on my bike had the toughest time, but they figured things out and made good progress.

They also unintentionally caused a pinch flat in my first tube.

I put in my spare tube and caused a second pinch flat.

Then I was out of tubes.

By that point I sent all the students home, and spent another hour by myself in the gym-classroom, putting patches on both tubes and cleaning up before heading home at 8:30 pm.

I had a 6:30 am rowing meeting at the boathouse this morning.

I am so tired right now and have another class to go teach in 20 mins.

This schedule is terrible.