Rounding Third

As I tried to think of artistic ways to write why I didn't update for so long again, I just gave up and decided to give it to you straight. I'm busy and I'm lazy.

Quite a bit has happened since my last little dabble in blogdom. My wife and I attended the official award ceremony and dinner to kick off the new year for faculty and staff. It was a little cheesy at times (game show during awards ceremony), but overall it was a very enjoyable evening. Also, my wife had the chance to meet some of my fellow titan's of knowledge and their significant others. It was a good evening of catching up and I was able to down some amazing turtle cheesecake.

I've been slaving away at my syllabi and I'm finally seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. It's a good thing too, because classes start next Wednesday! I've looked over my textbooks, made some headway on class assignments, and have the faces of my dear students looking up at my from my desk now. I love the ability to print them out before I see them. I still don't know all of their names yet, but I'll get there.

I also found out today that I have five freshmen to advise. This will also be a learning experience, but I figure...how bad could I really mess up their lives if I'm a little off my A game the first year? Not much. Unless I tell them they should do video and they really should be a nuclear engineer. That could come up in later therapy sessions.

Overall, I'm feeling much better about starting the year up. I'm uber excited about classes starting and getting to meet new students. I hope I can get my students just as stoked as I am about what I'm teaching. I know that's always the challenge, but is also one of the greatest rewards.




~"Just once, couldn't your attitude reflect the gravity of the situation??"
~"Not if I can help it!"