Bored, so ramble and general life update
Starting some time next week (when Mr. Bob gets the schedule figured out), I will be working 20 hours/week in the library at the school. YAY! *does happy dance* I was finally approved of today.
I'm taking a break from Math for Teachers (Math 106) because 1) It's kicking my ass and 2) it's kicking my ass. Seriously. I don't think I can bend my brain to think the way I need to in order to teach. This worries me.
Math 109 (College Algebra) is also kicking my ass, but not as badly as the Math 106. Bio 101, so far, is insanely easy. The lab, BioL 103 is insanely FUN. Pity it's only once a week. And Astronomy (Phys 315) is...fun and kinda easy because dear god I already know a good 2/3s of this stuff, I just don't know terms. I know the concepts, but I have problems with the terms.
Speaking of, I'm heading up to Green Bank on Friday to take the tour (with dad) and pics and such so I can do a report for mucho extra cred. I've got some articles I'll review as soon as I hear back from Prof. Dynak on whether or not there's a limit on whether or not the articles have to be current (most are before 2007). Is it cheating to do a review on an article that is only 47 words long? I found it on Infotrac and it SAID it was a full-text article...*grins*
Oh, and Dr. Refsland is Prof of the Year for WV. Sweet! *is so proud of her math teacher* She rocks. But it's hush hush until the official folk in Washington make the announcement, so shhh.
I'm bored and tired a lot, but I like life right now. My hair is cut (snipped it last Wed) and I've either received or at least ordered all the parts to my Halloween costume.
Politics piss me off these days, so I'm keeping quiet on them, mostly. I can't hear about anything remotely Republican without flying into a blind rage. I know I said I wouldn't, and I've held to that for over a year, but I'm thinking of changing my mind and voting for Obama anyway, just to keep McCain from having one vote more than Obama. I hate McCain and Palin so much, I'd risk Obama's life. I hope I'm wrong about him being assassinated if...no, WHEN he's elected. Don't know if I could live with the guilt. Especially if he's elected by a close margin.
I took my ritalin, but mind mind is racing. It feels restless and even though my muscles ache (lot of walking this week), my body feels the need to gogogo. Maybe I'll read those ppts for Astro online, since I left my folder with the hard copies at home.
My dreams lately have been very vivid and strange. Day before yesterday, I actually had a lucid dream. I was walking down Greenbrier Ave in Rainelle then suddenly realized I was dreaming and tried to fly my way (floating up and floating on the wind) and I did. Then I seemed to forget I was lucid dreaming because next I knew...well, I was doing something else. Lets leave it at that.
Numbers and insects (spiders and scorpions, mostly) have been appearing like crazy. One dream I had last week had a paper scorpion and a paper crawdad (crawfish/river shrimp/whatever) and was extremely vivid.
I had a Feeling yesterday afternoon and the closest I could figure it was for was the school shooting in Finland, even though it took place 2 hours before my Feeling. Unless it was about Bush speaking with the UN, which I suppose is possible.
Gonna go now. Restless.
I'm taking a break from Math for Teachers (Math 106) because 1) It's kicking my ass and 2) it's kicking my ass. Seriously. I don't think I can bend my brain to think the way I need to in order to teach. This worries me.
Math 109 (College Algebra) is also kicking my ass, but not as badly as the Math 106. Bio 101, so far, is insanely easy. The lab, BioL 103 is insanely FUN. Pity it's only once a week. And Astronomy (Phys 315) is...fun and kinda easy because dear god I already know a good 2/3s of this stuff, I just don't know terms. I know the concepts, but I have problems with the terms.
Speaking of, I'm heading up to Green Bank on Friday to take the tour (with dad) and pics and such so I can do a report for mucho extra cred. I've got some articles I'll review as soon as I hear back from Prof. Dynak on whether or not there's a limit on whether or not the articles have to be current (most are before 2007). Is it cheating to do a review on an article that is only 47 words long? I found it on Infotrac and it SAID it was a full-text article...*grins*
Oh, and Dr. Refsland is Prof of the Year for WV. Sweet! *is so proud of her math teacher* She rocks. But it's hush hush until the official folk in Washington make the announcement, so shhh.
I'm bored and tired a lot, but I like life right now. My hair is cut (snipped it last Wed) and I've either received or at least ordered all the parts to my Halloween costume.
Politics piss me off these days, so I'm keeping quiet on them, mostly. I can't hear about anything remotely Republican without flying into a blind rage. I know I said I wouldn't, and I've held to that for over a year, but I'm thinking of changing my mind and voting for Obama anyway, just to keep McCain from having one vote more than Obama. I hate McCain and Palin so much, I'd risk Obama's life. I hope I'm wrong about him being assassinated if...no, WHEN he's elected. Don't know if I could live with the guilt. Especially if he's elected by a close margin.
I took my ritalin, but mind mind is racing. It feels restless and even though my muscles ache (lot of walking this week), my body feels the need to gogogo. Maybe I'll read those ppts for Astro online, since I left my folder with the hard copies at home.
My dreams lately have been very vivid and strange. Day before yesterday, I actually had a lucid dream. I was walking down Greenbrier Ave in Rainelle then suddenly realized I was dreaming and tried to fly my way (floating up and floating on the wind) and I did. Then I seemed to forget I was lucid dreaming because next I knew...well, I was doing something else. Lets leave it at that.
Numbers and insects (spiders and scorpions, mostly) have been appearing like crazy. One dream I had last week had a paper scorpion and a paper crawdad (crawfish/river shrimp/whatever) and was extremely vivid.
I had a Feeling yesterday afternoon and the closest I could figure it was for was the school shooting in Finland, even though it took place 2 hours before my Feeling. Unless it was about Bush speaking with the UN, which I suppose is possible.
Gonna go now. Restless.