First day of classes and I am unprepared. I'm teaching a three-hour course, "Writing and Research," this semester for our English department. This is the second time in as many years that I've taught the course, but this year I'm taking a different approach. The course will actually be more of a journalism course, emphasizing news and feature writing, than a pure "research" writing course. It'll be an interesting experiment. At any rate, I need to prep for the first class, so I won't be blogging much today.