Merciful heavens, I’m relieved to have gotten through this four-week interval. In Hilary Term, I continue teaching whatever tutorials I usually offer, plus I take up the last four tutes for the Introduction to the Bible class for first-years. It’s a lovely time with wonderful students, but the sudden influx of essays and marking and tutes puts a lot of extra pressure on my late winter/early spring. Today’s the last day of that double fortnight. My preliminarians have been wonderful, and Sarah (my HB colleague) and I are hoping to give them a little extra coaching before they sit their exams, but today marks a real turning point for my diary. Oh, and I have the last Gospels tutorial for my Year 2 student as well.
So I started the day with a timed run, expecting that it would mark a real fall-off from my personal-record last two miles. I think I timed my energy-burning a little better, but it was still a few seconds off my previous timed run. No worries, though; it was my second-best time, and pulled my rolling average down to 18:22, with which I am well pleased.
So my day shapes up as run, coffee and fruit, shower and dress, Morning Prayer, rush to the bus, coffee in Oxford while I read essays, tutorial, lunch, two more tutes, then home to unwind and toast the end of Hilary Term teaching.