Paul Valery, Charles Fourier, & Michael Perelman

Joanna Sheldon cjs10 at cornell.edu
Sat Jan 13 22:33:12 PST 2001


And I still dream that I'm scheduled to teach a course that I forget about until after the first day (or week, depending on how anxiety-ridden I want to be) of class is over. Then I make up all kinds of fantastic excuses to present to the students when I show up on the next scheduled day...trembling at the thought that no one will be there...

Never actually happened to me, but the thought of having to remember to be in a certain room on a certain day at a certain time still gives me the mild horrors.

cheers, Joanna

At 11:37 14-01-01, you wrote:
>I have the same thing. I dream that I'm registered
>for a course I have not been attending (something
>that happened a few times as an undergrad), and I
>have to remember to drop before I am forced to
>take the exam and flunk.
>
>mbs
>
>
>
>. . . I had a recurring dream for
>years. I would dream that I had signed up for some seminar or course
>and had forgotten I was registered, until in the middle of the dream,
>then I would feel seized by paranoia--I would be convinced a paper was
>due on some subject I had forgotten,.. Suddenly I would wake up in a
>panic, my god, what I am doing here? Where is that damn class, who was
>the prof, what were we supposed to be doing? Very weird. And this was
>long after I was out of school. Obviously, I hadn't finished my
>education, even though I had finished the degree. And so that's
>another thing that is never finished--education.
>
>Chuck Grimes

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