Needed that hour of sleep.

No freaking kidding. The extra hour we get in fall is always kind of nice, but I'd totally trade it.

Why don't they move the clock on Friday night, so that you'll have the whole weekend to get used to the different schedule?

(Also, hi, Emily! It's been forever since we posted together! How are you doing?)

I've been waking up at five-something o'clock for the last few weeks. I should be able to sleep longer now that it's gonna get light out later.

I only had one clock to set - the rest set themselves....

Why don't they move the clock on Friday night, so that you'll have the whole weekend to get used to the different schedule?

I think because more people have off Sunday than Saturday.

Why don't they move the clock on Friday night, so that you'll have the whole weekend to get used to the different schedule?

A very good question.

I'm trying to get up the motivation to go grade papers. However, it's a really nice day outside, and my office has no windows, and I'm really just not feeling the urge to spend all afternoon in a dark basement. (I can't really grade anywhere else -- I need a lot of room to spread papers out, and my desk at home is too cluttered for that, and I'm afraid things will blow away if I try to grade outside.)

I think because more people have off Sunday than Saturday.

More people have Saturday off than Friday here, and still they set the clock on Thursday night. Which I think is a good idea, even when I do have to work on the relevant Fridays.

it's a really nice day outside

We call "Daylight Savings Time" a "Summer clock" (and when we return to the regular clock, it's "Winter clock"). In honor of that, after more than a month of a beautiful weather and a few scorches, as is the way of Israeli springs, we got a full winter's weather today. It's probably the very last of the year, and I'm enjoying it very much, wet feet and all.

I need a lot of room to spread papers out

I usually do it on a bed or on a sofa, with papers spread all over them as well as the floor. And I can't get up in the middle, because they're in a certain order, too.

I got spam from Irony O. Cutthroat and Lovelorn E. Bloodsuckers this morning. Are we sure no Buffistas are working in email sales?

(Also, hi, Emily! It's been forever since we posted together! How are you doing?)

Hi! Um... doing. Totally up and down, really swamped. This lesson plan thing is more exhausting than I thought -- it's not that I can't think of things to do, I just can't think how to write them down!

How are you, lovely Israeli lady?

Irony O. Cutthroat and Lovelorn E. Bloodsuckers

Oh, all the spam I got lately was for the middle east peace process and the (then upcoming) elections. Can I at least get the names from your spam? Especially with JZ's theory of my future pirate-dating.

it's not that I can't think of things to do, I just can't think how to write them down!

The phrasing, putting in exact order, including imagining the responses of the class and how to take them from point A to point Z through all the relevant points on the way - that's more often more difficult than actually deciding what to say. At least for me.

As for me, well, the usual. The elections mess is soon going to be gone (and will probably show that nothing changes), Passover mess is soon going to devour us all, starting from the bottom (where most crumbs and dust are hiding, of course), and I'm way too behind on my research.

Are you getting to actually teach now? Which classes? What material? [Edit: oh, and you're lovely!]

Nilly!