School, schedules and the High Holidays
I teach a least one class each day, Monday through Thursday. The calendar this year has been very strange. First, because Labor Day was so late we started classes on Wednesday, September 2. I can only remember starting classes before Labor Day once before (and I have no memory of what year it was, only that I was still a doctoral student, so we're talking late 90's). Second, the first Monday was a Labor Day, so Monday classes met on Friday of the first week of school. Since I teach two classes that meet twice a week on Monday and Wednesday, the first week of school I taught Wednesday, Thursday (my regularly scheduled Thursday class) and Friday. The week of Labor Day I taught on Tuesday (my regularly scheduled Tuesday class), Wednesday and Thursday. Okay, now let's go to the week of September 14, the week after Labor Day. Monday was Rosh Hashanah and we didn't have classes. So I taught Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday again. And that brings us to the week that just e...