Today a wrinkle was thrown in my schedule that needs to get worked out, because it is not acceptable at the present time. So far I have been teaching classes at 1 and 3 PM on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays, and at 4PM on Mondays and Wednesdays and at 5PM on Tuesdays. This schedule has been a bit busy to prepare for, but acceptable at least in that it allowed a 2PM break every day for snacking and preparing and relaxing. All of that is well and good, and I consider such down time very important because I am not someone who needs the chance to sit down and take a lot off of my feet a fair amount of the time.

Unfortunately, the wrinkle makes that impossible. Originally, I was supposed to be teaching one of the classes short term. Now, in addition to those classes I am being asked to assist and sit on another class at 2PM that involves a 10 minute bike ride to and from the farm (biking furiously each way). This is not going to work. On days like today when it is raining I ended up soaked, late (because the 2PM class started and ended late), and in no state to stand up and teach the next class with no prep time in between. On sunny days I’d still be soaked, with sweat from the furious bike ride. Transportation is going to be a must, since that sort of schedule and effort is not sustainable, not when I am expected to be in a fit state to teach in a relaxed and slow manner, and not my usual breathlessly fast talking.

As it is, I am drying off in front of a fan, hoping to be dried off enough for my 4PM class, which will be (mercifully) short. I need to ponder the logistics of the schedule I have been asked to do, as right now they are not working out. Today I have had to bike twice to and from the farm, once in the blazing heat of midday and once in the rain. Needless to say, I’m not relishing the sudden and massive increase in my exercise and the sudden decrease in prime preparation time in the middle of the afternoon when I was accustomed to snack a little bit to ease the hunger in the gap between lunch and dinner.

On the other hand, riding on the bike has given me a little bit of time to ponder, as I tend to be rather daydreamy when I am traveling, my mind on other matters than the mundane task of piloting my way on a bicycle in between scooters, vehicles, and other bicycles, and the occasional pedestrian. I suppose that my habit of keeping my head firmly in the clouds no matter where I am, whether on rainy days or sunny days, is a habit that makes life more interesting, but at the same time it does provide the rewarding side benefit of providing plenty of fodder to muse and ponder. Such is the life, though, I suppose. And now that the electricity has gone off I suppose there will be a further delay in posting today. When it rains, it pours.