before i went to sleep i got an email from someone i'm lecturing for. she said she got sick and so couldn't do the class she was supposed to for the course. that next week (my week) i've have to run the tutorial / section on her stuff. that one of the kids in the course contacted her and said he was shy about talking in tutorials / sections and she replied to him saying that there would be small group work.

i was feeling kind of annoyed that she expected me to do her stuff in the tutorial. that would mean i'd be behind with my stuff for the rest of the course. i was annoyed she promised this kid that there would be small group work, too. small group work is not something that i like to do with my classes because when i was a kid i really hated small group work.

then i went to sleep...

in my dream i was taking the tutorial / section. i can't remember whether i was doing it on my stuff or on her stuff. i know they were the kids who were supposed to be in the class but none of the faces were familiar to me - it was like i was meeting them for the first time. when i got there there were about 5 but they all seemed bored and like they would rather be elsewhere. the room was odd... some combination (i realize now) of an undergraduate psychology section i attended as an undergraduate and the school hall from when i was 11. these largish black wooden boxes lines up along the front of the room like a stage or something.

i got the kids to rearrange their desks a little so we were in a circle (easier to get dialogue going with a small group) but they were bored and didn't really want to engage / participate. then these other kids started straggling in. even border. so i needed to get the first bunch to move the desks back so there was room for everyone to be a part of things.

then i started talking... but i was massively underprepared and i knew i was raving incomprehensibly.

then my supervisor for my dissertation walked in. he said 'you need to show them how the material relates to their lives' and he started to talk... and i never would have thought to try relating it the way he did... and he was really interesting. and they perked up and listened and seemed interested. and i was just kinda standing back feeling embarrassed and underprepared and like i wasn't doing a very good job of things and kinda happy to be listening to him because he was so good.

and that was it.

that was it.

so... guess i'm supposed to free associate to that. lol.