Back to School (and the great indoors)

This corner of my office sums up my state of mind: half dreaming out the window at the still-summery world, half returning to my backpack and shelves full of poetry.

Luckily, a scheduling snafu sent my first two Freshman English classes outdoors.  There's nothing like teaching two back-to-back classes in the great outdoors--leaves in my hair, traffic cacaphony, bugs in my coffee--to make indoors look a whole lot more inviting.