Educating the masses

First night of class successfully concluded. Because of what are politely known as "construction delays" in the classrooms that were supposed to be done by the start of Fall Semester, the class venue was shuffled into what is essentially the day-nursery at the college, which has fewer seats than even the number of students on the pre-enrollment roster. Forty pre-registered students... and FIFTY more showed up, trying to add the class, because of budget cuts which have reduced the number of sections available. Fifty is an entire class. The situation infuriates me.

Ten of the pre-registered students didn't bother to show up for the first class, so I held a lottery for their places - and turned away forty students who need the class to get into a 4-year college. 

And then a long drive home over the hills in the dark. They're still working on the 405 Freeway, so it's surface-streets and wind-ey canyon roads and glimpses of strange little canyon houses in the darkness, until all of a sudden you come up a rise and find yourself on Wilshire Boulevard.

And again tonight.