Weird little day, being back on campus after a Thursday holiday. This Friday is an orphan.

I think I like taking the one-day holiday on the official day: it helps us remember why we're not at work. All those three-day weekend things do is blur that realization. Hey, but that's just me, and there was a bit of resistance to the idea that I would have to get up and go to work this morning.

Projects due today, and students will feel like doing "nothing" because they see it as a day detached from regular school. We train them to do that by the way we run our classes, of course. I always want to do school on school days, but I'm sure there will be many movies running on campus today. Warehousing. That's not what I get paid to do, and I have a moral obligation to make good use of each of the 180 days I get with them. Lord knows they need the education.

Freshman problem is mostly solved, and for a while the bane of my existence is suspended, so class is like, well, a class. I'll have to see what I can do to quarantine him when he returns.