Good Stuff, Belated
1. Going camping tomorrow, for the weekend. Hooray for a bit of Girl Scout fun time! It's cabin camping with a kitchen facility, so it's not exactly roughing it, but it will still be a lot of fun time away from work. I'll feel a lot better when I get back (provided that being out in the wet for 2.5 days doesn't make me sick, lol).
2. Cranking through crap on the to do list. 12 things off for today, plus another 5-6 things delegated to my faculty assistant. I can't be here to grade/work this weekend, and it forced me to think ahead and delegate stuff to him that I otherwise would have tried to do this weekend. I spent today getting stuff together so he could work this weekend instead of me. I still have to do some stuff, but the workload is a LOT more manageable for me. I get 10 hrs a week of his time, and having him sitting in my classroom is good, at least occasionally, but it shouldn't be half of his hours.
3. I sent in two proposals to a spring conference, Midwest in Chicago in April. One substantive, and one on the teaching strategy I'm using this term (coauthored with the person who got me started on it in the first place).
4. Ate out tonight at a place that I've been craving a bit for for the last couple weeks. Yum, Potbelly's.
5. Bought some pink ribbon supplies that I needed for my office anyway. Succeeded in not getting too pissed at the staff when the 'site to store quick pickup' took over half an hour. Left them to look while I went across the lot to the drug store to get some things for the camping trip. I don't own a flashlight larger than my little finger - or at least, I didn't before this afternoon. Now I own two of them. :-)
Ok, it's 11:15 and I still need to pack... Gotta be out of here at 8 AM tomorrow, so I better get moving! Don't expect to hear from me for the next few days.
2. Cranking through crap on the to do list. 12 things off for today, plus another 5-6 things delegated to my faculty assistant. I can't be here to grade/work this weekend, and it forced me to think ahead and delegate stuff to him that I otherwise would have tried to do this weekend. I spent today getting stuff together so he could work this weekend instead of me. I still have to do some stuff, but the workload is a LOT more manageable for me. I get 10 hrs a week of his time, and having him sitting in my classroom is good, at least occasionally, but it shouldn't be half of his hours.
3. I sent in two proposals to a spring conference, Midwest in Chicago in April. One substantive, and one on the teaching strategy I'm using this term (coauthored with the person who got me started on it in the first place).
4. Ate out tonight at a place that I've been craving a bit for for the last couple weeks. Yum, Potbelly's.
5. Bought some pink ribbon supplies that I needed for my office anyway. Succeeded in not getting too pissed at the staff when the 'site to store quick pickup' took over half an hour. Left them to look while I went across the lot to the drug store to get some things for the camping trip. I don't own a flashlight larger than my little finger - or at least, I didn't before this afternoon. Now I own two of them. :-)
Ok, it's 11:15 and I still need to pack... Gotta be out of here at 8 AM tomorrow, so I better get moving! Don't expect to hear from me for the next few days.