still around
I'm still here... just quiet and I read LJ every day except weekends - so I'm keeping up with your daily lives as well.
I'm getting bigger. The boy is settling down and doesn't move very much. Apparently this means he's getting bigger and there just isn't the space for him to move around. I think he's still pretty healthy and I will know for certain next week at my next appointment.
I'm still cross stitching, but taking a break right now teaching a 3 week winter camp for incoming freshmen at Dan's university. I teach writing, and I'm actually in class this minute while they all work on the body of their short essays. I found that giving them homework means they won't do it after the camp is over, so I just give them a lot of class time to work on it. I just walk around and look over their papers, unless they have questions then I go over and answer them. It's pretty easy work, but since I'm using a new book I haven't been completely lazy and did some prep work for it.
Today I have 3 students out of 9 in class due to placement testing. I wish they'd do a better job of scheduling it so that only 3 students were missing every day. I had to cancel my lesson plan for today since most of the students were missing.
Dan is in Seattle right now at a coding conference. He's been gone for about 10 days now and will return in two days. I'm looking forward to it.
I'm also trying to do a sample edit for a second job. It's tough. Editing here isn't really editing in the real sense where you just point out the mistakes and give advice on how to fix them..here you rewrite the paper for the writer and fix all of their mistakes. It's due tomorrow and I'm probably not even 50% finished. I've spent three days on it, but considering all the changes I want to make, it'll take several more hours tonight to do it. This sample really makes me NOT want to have the second job, but I won't cop out now. I want to see if I pass the test and then I can make that decision. If I don't pass, then the decision will be made for me, but I really don't want to quit before I'm given a chance. I have a bad tendency to do that - where I won't apply for something because I think I won't get it and well.... since I didn't try, I didn't get it.
This weekend will be nice since Dan will be back and the editing thing will be off my hands and into the reviewers. I'll be disappointed if I fail because it means that my editing skills aren't as great as I'd want, but I won't be too disappointed since I have my F4 visa and I can legally do privates and other jobs without asking immigration for permission - if I really want extra work (which I really don't). Mostly, my excuse is the baby. I won't have time to do extra work in two months time.
Talking about the baby, I haven't even started to prepare for him to arrive. I have been lazily looking for a stroller, one that doesn't cost me $1000 or more. I did find one I liked for $600 and that seems excessive. Costco has one for $200 which is more reasonable, but I want one with a car seat so that I can put him on a chair with us at the table, or actually put him in a taxi without having to hold him - which is what most Koreans do. Many Koreans do not use car seats, they just hold the baby. Dan even saw a woman driving with a baby in her lap. Yeah....
So that's my exciting life these days.
I'm getting bigger. The boy is settling down and doesn't move very much. Apparently this means he's getting bigger and there just isn't the space for him to move around. I think he's still pretty healthy and I will know for certain next week at my next appointment.
I'm still cross stitching, but taking a break right now teaching a 3 week winter camp for incoming freshmen at Dan's university. I teach writing, and I'm actually in class this minute while they all work on the body of their short essays. I found that giving them homework means they won't do it after the camp is over, so I just give them a lot of class time to work on it. I just walk around and look over their papers, unless they have questions then I go over and answer them. It's pretty easy work, but since I'm using a new book I haven't been completely lazy and did some prep work for it.
Today I have 3 students out of 9 in class due to placement testing. I wish they'd do a better job of scheduling it so that only 3 students were missing every day. I had to cancel my lesson plan for today since most of the students were missing.
Dan is in Seattle right now at a coding conference. He's been gone for about 10 days now and will return in two days. I'm looking forward to it.
I'm also trying to do a sample edit for a second job. It's tough. Editing here isn't really editing in the real sense where you just point out the mistakes and give advice on how to fix them..here you rewrite the paper for the writer and fix all of their mistakes. It's due tomorrow and I'm probably not even 50% finished. I've spent three days on it, but considering all the changes I want to make, it'll take several more hours tonight to do it. This sample really makes me NOT want to have the second job, but I won't cop out now. I want to see if I pass the test and then I can make that decision. If I don't pass, then the decision will be made for me, but I really don't want to quit before I'm given a chance. I have a bad tendency to do that - where I won't apply for something because I think I won't get it and well.... since I didn't try, I didn't get it.
This weekend will be nice since Dan will be back and the editing thing will be off my hands and into the reviewers. I'll be disappointed if I fail because it means that my editing skills aren't as great as I'd want, but I won't be too disappointed since I have my F4 visa and I can legally do privates and other jobs without asking immigration for permission - if I really want extra work (which I really don't). Mostly, my excuse is the baby. I won't have time to do extra work in two months time.
Talking about the baby, I haven't even started to prepare for him to arrive. I have been lazily looking for a stroller, one that doesn't cost me $1000 or more. I did find one I liked for $600 and that seems excessive. Costco has one for $200 which is more reasonable, but I want one with a car seat so that I can put him on a chair with us at the table, or actually put him in a taxi without having to hold him - which is what most Koreans do. Many Koreans do not use car seats, they just hold the baby. Dan even saw a woman driving with a baby in her lap. Yeah....
So that's my exciting life these days.