Last night I didn't fall alseep until almost 2am because my stomach decided it needed to have a craving at about 11:30p after I'd been in bed an hour and a half. So, getting up at 6:30a this morning sucked. I managed to get showered, dress, feed the critters, to park at the stadium and walk to Hagerty with 10 minutes left before my meeting for the ( Read more... )

Well, just after arriving home from Indy I opened my OSU email and found out my assignment for the quarter. I will not actualy have my own class. I will be "apprenticed" to two of the other TAs. I'll help them prepare, grade, and sit in on their classes. This is not such a bad thing. The sections for 135 are huge, so the chair didn't really ( Read more... )

So, apparently in the Slavic department "You'll get your assignments tomorrow" does not mean by close of business tomorrow (well, today now). In actuality, it means, "We will tell you your section assignment the day before classes start." Okay, so maybe I'll find out this weekend. But this is driving me nuts. Everyone who's teaching 101 has ( Read more... )

So, I've made through a week of the workshop and the evil proficiency test. I didn't pass it. None of it. Not one single section. This is not a surprise. That dratted test seems to have been written for someone with at least 5 years of study ( Read more... )

OMG!!! I'm a quarter century old! AAH! So much left to do so little time! but my car insurance premiums will go down today. Anyway, today's the 25th year of my life. I could pause for a bit of reflection here, but we need to go to the store for gravel, a broom, animal food and shampoo. Later we're going out to dinner someplace quiet and romantic ( Read more... )

So, I attended the first day of my ten day GTA workshop. It was interesting, and surprisingly not boring. Although, I did keep yawning after our morning break. Dratted 8:30 start time. Which, of course, means that I got up at 6:30 since I don't like to be rushed in the morning ( Read more... )

Apparently 7 years is too long to go without a tornado. We spent about an hour in the basement with the critters and fresh pizza. Well, at least we had the radio and laptops to amuse us. I guess out of all the funnel clouds that the weather spotters saw, only one touched down and that was in the couny southeast of us ( Read more... )

So, the PD and I attended the second wedding since we've been married. It's still a bit weird to not be chased up to the dance floor to try to catch the bouquet. Note: this bride caught my bouquet ( Read more... )