My class went really well today, but as usual, my university book store has dropped the ball. I am teaching a 75-student lecture with every seat filled, and the book store only ordered between 25-35 copies of the assigned texts. This has happened every semester that I've been at my current school. Granted, some students prefer to order online and you might end up with surplus books, but with a class that is completely full and has a cap of 75, you'd think they'd order more than 25 copies.
I had to push back a key component of the first assignment because of it. Not the best way to start the semester.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
