Portrait of the Fall 2024 semester
The grades for all of my classes, Fundamentals of Genetics, Evolution, and Development, and History of Evolutionary Thought, and Cell Biology lab, and Biological Communication II, have been submitted. I am done. This was not my favorite semester of the 50-some semesters I’ve taught here.
Now I’m getting ready for spring semester — or rather, I have been getting ready. I set up fly stocks way back in early November, I have to do one more generation, and then I set up all the flies for our first lab. Bonus: next semester, I have no classes on Fridays. Three day weekends every week! That might make up for all the grading I’ll have to do in the writing class I’ll be teaching.
Well, PZ, the classes are over, but the chores never end.
To mangle the quote from ‘Frankenstein’: flys? flys? why would I mess with flys, when I can feed meal worms to my nice juicy spiders!
(yes, that is the old spelling, some spell it flies now)
And, I know you probably wouldn’t want it to mangle your work, but will you be using AI in your grading?
NO AI! Never.
I also need the flies to feed baby spiders, who aren’t quite big enough to take on mealworms.
Don’t challenge fate by being optimistic about the future!