Okay, so I might have failed to mention some things between May and now.  There is too much; I sum up.  I finished my thesis; I graduated (I even have the piece of paper); UGA hired me to teach 1101 and 1102 as a full-time instructor.  This sounds cool because I fall under the term "faculty" of UGA, but I'm really just one step higher than I was ( Read more... )

Okay, quick bit of news because I'm supposed to be finishing the chapter today.  SO CLOSE ( Read more... )

So this Tuesday I didn't have a chance to post because the entire freshman class decided to go nutso on me. After a quiet semester with barely any questions or problems I have students asking me how to upload, use OpenOffice, move files to portfolio, put in a peer review. All things they should have been doing all semester so I can only imagine ( Read more... )

So it feels like progress.  Piedmont College said they'd schedule an interview with me in a few weeks for part-time instructors.  Mirko pasta is trying to get in touch with me . . .about an interview, I assume.  My friend at Office Max said they're hiring right now.  I have an interview with Kaplan (step two: the audition went well) tomorrow.  And ( Read more... )

I have to rush through this next post because I'm actually working at work today.  It's the end of the semester and all of the first year composition students are required to come in to fill out course evaluations.  Could they do this online at any time?  Yes, but students can't be trusted to do it, so teachers give up half of a class period (which ( Read more... )

So Friday Meg made us paella to celebrate the beginning of the Andre games.  There will be a series of competitions throughout the summer, mostly on the lawn, in which we compete for the Andre the Giant mug.  We're keeping it in the family so these competitions are really just between the roomies and those who live so close to us we consider them ( Read more... )

Round two of poker went better, but I always want to talk about the hand, and I guess that destroys all the mystery that allows you to later bluff.  But let's be honest: I don't do mystery.  I can't blame poker this time for not sleeping last night; it was my own stupid brain.  So after the roommates quieted down at 1, I decided to panic about ( Read more... )

I can't even remember the last time I was this tired.  Today is all day in the lab pretty much, with a lunch break that I spent combing through shakespeare society publications.  But knowing that I had an early day, I still joined the poker game at my kitchen table last night and bought in a second time when I should have put on my jammies.  I did ( Read more... )

Last week was spring break, but rather than spend money going places (I can't afford going as far as where it's warm anyways) I was pet-sitting for one of the professors to make a little cash on the side.  Though they have a very nice house, I feel like I earned every lovin' cent of it because my charge was a 17 year old dog with failing kidneys ( Read more... )

If I can think back that far, we had a good weekend.  We saw a wonderful show at Town & Gown called the Love List.  It's a fairly recent play and vaguely like an old man's version of Weird Science.  Two men make a list of the top ten qualities to make the perfect woman and then she shows up.  Definitely check it out if there's a production near you ( Read more... )