And You Know It's STILL Monday

when at 11:12 p.m. you've spent what seems like forever trying to copy and scan an article from the textbook that didn't get ordered, on the world's possibly slowest home copier/scanner, so your students can read it before Wednesday because you've based almost your whole lesson plan around discussing it and you finally get it ready to upload and then the school's frickin' website won't let you because it's too big so you try to e-mail it but that won't work either because the school's e-mail system has the same 20MB size limit so you send all your students an e-mail saying you give up but you'll try again from the office tomorrow where you have a faster copier/scanner and maybe you can get the article into some other file format that will go.

Maybe.

If you're lucky, and Tuesday goes better than Monday did.

It's Definitely Still Monday If...

• ... you spend 20 minutes circling the parking deck looking for a parking place.
  
• You give up and spend another 20 minutes just trying to get out of the parking deck, which by now is a three-story traffic jam.
• You drive over to the alternative parking lot you used last year and find that it is now closed to faculty.
  
• You finally, in desperation, park illegally and are still five minutes late to class.

You Know It's a Monday When...

1. It's the first day of class, and you can't find your ID--which unfortunately, is also your key to your classroom.
2. You aren't even at your first class yet, and you're already getting e-mails from students saying that the book orders--for both classes, no less--are screwed up.