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Relaxation!
Jul. 13th, 2003 11:30 amFinally this weekend I've gotten to relax. Work -very- nearly ended in chaos on Friday, and the boss and I were almost shouting at each other we were both so frustrated and of differing opinions. Can I just say that endears me to her even more? Because we work well enough together to be able to vent like that and still be confident there's no damage to the working relationship. No surprise, it all smoothed out very quickly, and the matter of contention (over the paperwork of one of the staff) was cleared up and life went on, and the day wrapped up nicely. Then Dean caught the express train home and we hit happy hour at Hooters, which allowed me to eat a few buffalo wings and drown my stress in a pint of Yuengling. Okay, so yeah, drowning to me is just one pint. Well, that and I just like Yeungling. Which I obviously can't spell, so I figure if I spell it both ways? One of them's bound to be right! Anyway, it made for the start of a very lovely and relaxing weekend, and I'm in great appreciation of it.
The real news is, I've got my Fall teaching schedule! Wheeeee! I'll be teaching Mondays 4:30-8:30PM and Saturdays 9:00AM-1:00PM. Yaaaay! So now we'll be able to easily afford for Dean to get the motorcycle he wants! *poing* And it's not a massive class schedule. It's a remedial class in reading/writing, all based on current events, which I'm honestly thrilled about. I'd -far- rather teach that than try to get them to read dusty old classics. Like I'm gonna make inner city community college kids in a remedial class read The Scarlet Letter? Hell no. That'd mean I'd have to -grade- it. I might even have to read it again myself, and that is -right- out of the question. I do have to pick a novel for them to read, or give them a choice of two or three, so I'm pondering that. I'm honestly toying with the idea of Ender's Game for a lot of reasons. I'm tempted to assign the first HP. ;) (Trying to corrupt the youth of America into geekhood? Yes. Muahahahaha!)
So there's the cheerful news for the weekend. Today is laundry day, and I'm pondering a run to Michael's for yarn. I finished my last afghan (finally) and am ready to start on another. I've got a pattern I'm really looking forward to trying. To any of you who do crochet and don't already know this site, Lion Brand has some fantastic patterns for free.
The real news is, I've got my Fall teaching schedule! Wheeeee! I'll be teaching Mondays 4:30-8:30PM and Saturdays 9:00AM-1:00PM. Yaaaay! So now we'll be able to easily afford for Dean to get the motorcycle he wants! *poing* And it's not a massive class schedule. It's a remedial class in reading/writing, all based on current events, which I'm honestly thrilled about. I'd -far- rather teach that than try to get them to read dusty old classics. Like I'm gonna make inner city community college kids in a remedial class read The Scarlet Letter? Hell no. That'd mean I'd have to -grade- it. I might even have to read it again myself, and that is -right- out of the question. I do have to pick a novel for them to read, or give them a choice of two or three, so I'm pondering that. I'm honestly toying with the idea of Ender's Game for a lot of reasons. I'm tempted to assign the first HP. ;) (Trying to corrupt the youth of America into geekhood? Yes. Muahahahaha!)
So there's the cheerful news for the weekend. Today is laundry day, and I'm pondering a run to Michael's for yarn. I finished my last afghan (finally) and am ready to start on another. I've got a pattern I'm really looking forward to trying. To any of you who do crochet and don't already know this site, Lion Brand has some fantastic patterns for free.
