{"id":846,"date":"2009-09-14T22:12:38","date_gmt":"2009-09-15T05:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/?p=846"},"modified":"2009-09-14T22:12:38","modified_gmt":"2009-09-15T05:12:38","slug":"im-back-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/2009\/09\/14\/im-back-baby\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m back, baby!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I woke up last Tuesday to the cold realization that my study leave was over: there was no choice but to admit that I was back at work.  My first lectures were Wednesday: one hour of CMPT&nbsp;165 and three of CMPT&nbsp;470.<\/p>\n<p>After the 165 lecture, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.sfu.ca\/people\/Faculty\/Profile\/diana.html\">Diana<\/a> stuck her head into my office.  She hadn&#8217;t been teaching in the summer semester, so she was also coming back to teaching.  &#8220;Did you have your first lecture yet?  Were you&hellip; excited?&#8221;  Apparently she was so excited to get back to teaching that she was a little befuddled in her first lecture.  This is why I love Diana.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know that I was particularly excited before my lectures, but now that I&#8217;ve done a full week, I&#8217;m feeling good about being back.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s something about being in front of a lecture room that feels right, especially with 165 and 470.  Those courses are really the equivalent of comfort food for me and I think I&#8217;m going to have fun this semester.<\/p>\n<p>So, I guess a year of study leave really does help one&#8217;s attitude.  At least for the first week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I woke up last Tuesday to the cold realization that my study leave was over: there was no choice but to admit that I was back at work. My first lectures were Wednesday: one hour of CMPT&nbsp;165 and three of CMPT&nbsp;470. After the 165 lecture, Diana stuck her head into my office. She hadn&#8217;t been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teaching","category-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=846"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":850,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846\/revisions\/850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}