Stuff about my new job

• Surprise, surprise! My every-day teaching schedule consumes a lot of time and energy. 
• Graded the first batch of student papers, and they were generally pretty good.
• I have a nagging fear I'm a way-too-lenient grader. The fact that the college actually circulates our grade distributions contributes to this fear.
• I am not convinced that my brand-new rubric saved me any grading time. Don't know if I need to just get used to it, tweak it, or simplify it dramatically.
• My fellow first-year faculty are cool and we get along well.
• Students here actually come to my office. I think I've had a visit from at least one every day.
• Our library doesn't have some books I'd like them to have. I don't know if there's enough room in the budget to pick them all up.
• ...there was another thing, but I've forgotten it.