Orbiting space

I was explaining to one of my colleagues earlier about teaching on the bus through Tuscany and Greece. With one exception, no one who hears about this thinks it’s an obviously fantastic idea. The one exception is the guy who taught in the first Italy-Greece trip of the summer; we offer two sections of this. Anyway, I was explaining how the students, despite their initial skepticism and recalcitrance, asked me to continue teaching on the bus long after we had gotten far enough ahead where it was no longer necessary. You see, the bus rides were painfully long and dull—which is why I decided to do this in the first place. But my colleague’s thoughts had drifted elsewhere.

“Maybe this would be a solution for the additional section of 1Ls.”

“You want to put them on the shuttle and have them orbit campus for torts and contracts?”

“Well, we could get a bigger, nicer bus.”

As it turns out, some of us (not me specifically) will have to teach law on the main campus. And classroom space, of course, is just one of the things the new Powers That Be have to contend with. Teaching schedules are being shuffled about and such. But don’t worry. It’s all going to be fine. I can already tell.