First Day?

Well here it is, the first day of school at Sacramento State. Or so they tell me. It's kind of hard to tell these days.  I mean, I was there, the campus was there. But no one else was there. Ghost town. If you ever watched the TV show "Last Man on Earth", you'd know what I experienced today. It was very much like that.

So the semester started, and crickets chirped. And squirrels searched in vain for morsels of food to eat. I'm sure the squirrels miss the students most of all. Having people around provided a stable food source, either from careless droppings or purposeful feedings. Usually both. What a buffet of food they've lost! 

I have no idea if anyone had any classes today. I mean I have to imagine that hundred and thousands of students were sitting somewhere, hovered over their computer screens, while professors droned on through Zoom and tried to make the best of it. Many probably experienced problems with internet, problems with technology, and so on. The same problems I see with my son's first grad class everyday. Though I hope the college students don't constantly interrupt class to share random and irrelevant tidbits of their lives with everyone. In any case, I'm sure students attended classes today as best they could.

I sat in my office and drank cocoa. Also I went for a walk.

I mean I did get productive things done. Got caught up with all of the space reservations that had to be changed, or deleted, or created, owing to the ever changing environment of our times. And I cleaned up my emails, and sent some out to start getting ready for the long haul of the semester. And it will be a long haul, I think, with a lot of busy times ahead.

But boy, was it dead today. Spooky. It's been nearly a year now of this. I think we're all ready to get back to normalcy. So much for the first day of classes.