That definitely makes sense--and I remember snatching bits of time as well, though really, what I remember was that at 10pm, I'd get home from whatever that day's organizational meeting was, and settle down to read until 1am.

It's really the problem of having had a very specific type of educational experience, you know? Because the format of the university I'm teaching at is nothing like the one where I got my BA, or where I did my graduate work, or where my wife got her BA, so I am routinely puzzled by things that for me were a part of "being in college" but appear to be institutionally variable. Not that this is bad--it's just the constant process of reassessing how things work in my head...

I tell myself, all of this will be easier when I'm teaching repeat preps. But that feels very far away. ;)