Found!

So, I've been found by my devious students. I thought it would take a little longer, but apparently I'm an old fogy, and had my facebook profile open to all. That has since been rectified.

Also, one of my students is going to the Muse concert. I now 'hate' her. However, I am hoping to get to go to Mae on Oct. 12th. I will know tonight whether my students let me move a class to Thursday or not.

Oh well, time to teach.

no quote due to time... Sorry I know that is what everyone reads for.

A Few More Hours Please.

Everyone has those days were you just can't seem to fit everything in. I experienced my latest one of those this past Tuesday.

I don't teach my Tuesday class until 6pm at night, so I thought I could mix a little business and pleasure and work freelance while up in Ohio. The plan was to be back by 4pm. Remember that when you are reading further down.

I am not a bad person!

I'll start off with a bit of history here. I like working on videos, I like making money, and I especially like combining both of those things. In an unexpected turn of events I was approached to help out on a video shoot in Springfield and make some extra cash. So far so good, but I don't have a lot of free time. The shoot is on a Tuesday. That's doable. And "I'll have you back by 4pm, 2 hours before your class" ... PERFECT!

So, I stay Monday night up in Ohio so I don't have to wake up at PRE-dawn's butt crack and drive up. The shoot goes fairly well, except I don't get back on campus until after 5pm.

Enter problem.

I also have two practicum meetings on Tuesday: one at 4pm and one at 5pm. I mention these to you at this point in the story because I also had forgotten about them when I was setting up this whole gig. I did think to email the 4pm people that I may be a 'bit late.' But showing up at 5pm is pretty bad.

The really awful thing is that the students actually waited around the ENTIRE HOUR for me!!! Who does that in college? I felt pretty much like a loser.

Anyhoot, they forgave me and I taught my 3D class in jeans and a T-shirt (not my standard dress code). I was a little frazzled, a lot of guilty, and none too shy of wondering if I smelled from the labor of the day, but at the end of the day, I still sleep at night.

I learned that I really can't schedule things near school event times in the future. And that I CAN run from Tyler, to Alford, then back to Tyler with an armload of books and not die ... and knowing is half the battle.

--I will count above G.I. Joe reference as my random quote for this post--

Technology: Can't live with it, can't ....

I experienced my first fun technology glitch as a professor last Friday. I worked on my Powerpoint for my 3pm class most of the day and in the 5 min walk from my office to class, my flash drive decided it would contabuleminate my file. So, I had 30 minutes to come up with something else. I'm lucky I'm always early to class. In the end I think it worked out. The student got to play in Photoshop instead of just hearing about it.

Also, my awesome laptop cannot handle some of the features of Photoshop and Maya that I am trying to teach. That will have to be addressed sooner or later. On a similar note, does anyone know how many files I can write/erase/reorganize on my little thumb drive before it goes on strike? By now I know that I would have.

In a completely unrelated turn of events I have discovered that I am in love with Coldstone Creamery's Shakes. I had a PB&C and tried my wife's Milk and Cookies one. If I was Oprah, they would be one of my 10 favorite things for the year (I do not watch Oprah BTW). I think it heaven, I will eat Qdoba and drink a PB&C and not only will they be healthy for me, but they will taste great together.

~"This a peace conference or a slam dance party?"~