Day 232: How was my last year in school? What school year was it?

Hahahaha. Let's see. It was my... (depending if you count my credentialing classes, which I am not intending to) 22nd year in school -- three years getting my MA, and three years to ABD, hurrah. It was good. I got to be an Instructor, so I had 100 undergraduates hanging on my every lectured word twice a week, and I was all experimenting with pre-Power Point technology; I'd made hundreds of gorgeous transparencies of primary source photos and graphics, and I put them up as I lectured -- the second half of the American History Survey class, from Reconstruction to the Present (I actually got to Reagan, which was my goal; I was very, very proud. Surveys never get that far.) I actually brought the class to tears in my Triangle Shirtwaist Fire lecture. And I worked in more about the life and times of the Communist Party than you'd ever imagine in a regular US History Survey class, ha.