Friday lectures are always a bit more squirrelly and distracted than usual. I’m a drawing professor and Mondays and Wednesdays are reserved for actual drawing, but every Friday I start with a lecture before getting into drawing. And honestly, I know I teach college courses, but every so often there’s a class that makes me doubt that.
Today I was talking and I notice these two young ladies (honestly two of my favorites, they’re very sweet and have great energy, and pretty cute too if I do say so myself) passing notes around the circle, back and forth to each other. There’s literally no way for me to miss it. It’s on bright pink paper and they’re seated right in front of me. My first thought is, “what year am I in?” I mean what happened to texting during class? But then I think maybe they’re drawing things back and forth to each other. It is a drawing class after all, and perhaps I shouldn’t be worried about it. As you can tell, I’m getting increasingly distracted and have to cut the lecture a bit short as I notice I can hardly focus as I’m almost completely focused on what they’re writing or drawing.