Friday drop deadline. This Friday, October 2, is the last day to drop the class with an automatic grade of W on your transcript. If you drop after Friday, you will end up with an F on your transcript (the only way to drop with a W after Friday is if you are passing the class when you drop, but if you were passing the class, you probably would not be dropping it, right?). So, for any of you in the class who are really having trouble keeping up, please take note of this deadline. With midterms coming up and more and more work being due in your other classes, you need to decide if you will be able to keep up with the workload in this class for the rest of the semester. If you have any questions about this, please make sure you contact me either on Wednesday or Thursday so I'll have time to answer your questions before the Friday deadline. If you are thinking you need to drop the class, now is the time to do that, so there will be no harm done to your transcript.
Storybook Stack. I'm still working my way through the large stack of Storybook assignments that people have turned in. If you turned in an assignment on or before 10PM on Sunday, you should have comments back from me now. If you turned something in after 10PM on Sunday evening or on Monday or Tuesday, your assignment is probably still in the stack, waiting for me to get to it. You can check to make sure your assignment is in the stack, you can see the contents of the stack here.
My Wednesday schedule. I do most of my work during regular business hours on Monday-Tuesday and Thursday-Friday, while scheduling my out-of-office commitments on Wednesdays. That means I may be a bit more slow to respond to your emails on Wednesday than on the other days of the week - but if you send me an email during the day on Wednesday, I'll definitely get back to you by the end of the day.
September 30: Rumi. The date of September 30 in the year 1207 is traditionally celebrated as the birthday of the great Sufi mystic and poet, Jalal al-Din Rumi, a figure familiar to those of you in the Myth-Folklore class who may be reading Rumi's poetry this week! You can find out more about Rumi at the class website, and the image below shows a picture of the famous whirling dervishes whose ecstatic dancing was inspired by Rumi over eight hundred years ago. Happy birthday, Rumi!
