So, it's been just about a month since I decided to grace the online world with an update on my life as a teacher, guess why....IT IS BUSY!
Anyway, October has been a fine month. The weather has finally cooled down and I'm almost needing a jacket to walk to my classes.
Speaking of classes, I just had an extended weekend away from them due to Fall Break. It was a nice change of pace until Saturday when I finally decided it was time to do some grading. Now, due to life happening, grading had fallen behind a bit in early October so there was quite a hefty pile of papers and polygons lying around for me to wade through and assign a conjured feeling that I possessed about the work in the for form of a letter. A's, B's, C's, and the like. I must say though, I feel that I may spend more time grading these collective works than my classes spend producing them. However, by the end of the batch I feel I am gaining considerable speed and efficiency in my grading craft. That, or I just dreamed that last few as I was fitfully sleeping that night.
On a side note, not dealing the professorship duties, I attended the farewell tour of Mae, one of my more favorite group of instrumentalists and vocal exercisers. It was pretty much everything I could have hoped for and I even waited around and talked to each of the band members, got their mark on an album I purchased, and generally felt like a middle school girl at an N'SYNC concert. Do people even know who they are anymore?
Well, back to the normal blabbering. I discovered something else about fall time in Cedarville today, apparently it is 'update tech cart' time. I went in to teach After Effects today only to find that it (and all my other installed programs) had magically disappeared from the computer. Luckily for my astute class, I arrive an hour early to class almost every day and was able to overcome network idiocy and install the program moments before class started. If that hadn't worked, I would probably have just drawn the program on the white erase board and taught from there. They might have enjoyed it more, but adding Ripple and Fractal Noise would have been a bit tedious.
So, now you know what has been my life. Also, grad school...busy. Lot's of busy. Should be more busy, but, I'm too busy for more busy. Have I said busy enough? Is this paragraph too busy with busy business?
I'm done, both literally and metaphorically.
~"Too bad! He's blown his vocal box. I guess that makes me the new leader!"~
