14 hours of travel EACH way!!!!!! And nothing to show for it! Well, I did see an old friend and got a very nice new purse from the in-laws. But don't know that it was worth the frustration of flying and numerous other petty disagreements.
Hubby did get me a nice recorder. Now I can record my thoughts on the causeway. (I refrained from recording my thoughts in my 6 extra hours in the airport!)
I finally made it back last night (at midnight instead of 6 pm) and ended up with a migraine today and a broken Internet connection.
It's been a helluva month.
Sunday, December 28, 2008
Thursday, December 18, 2008
Apply...
Wise up Grad Programs! Don't have an electronic application that requires me to print off 30 pages of crap and mail it in... my life is not that stable and I don't have enough printer ink... this is going to require a trip to staples and/or campus.
Saturday, December 13, 2008
I will survive
It's been my mantra this past week.
So far I've survived: teaching the WHOLE semester, grading 50 papers, and my first grad app. Still my in-laws to go!
If only I looked like that in red spandex pants and rollerskates!
So far I've survived: teaching the WHOLE semester, grading 50 papers, and my first grad app. Still my in-laws to go!
If only I looked like that in red spandex pants and rollerskates!
Friday, December 5, 2008
Evaluations
It's course (read Instructor) evaluation day!
Despite my usual level of anxiety at times like these, I couldn't care less. I already got a nice review from a faculty member and don't really care about what the little grade-grubbers think about my book selections.
I, like my students, am done for the semester. I, like my students, am focusing on my own life.
AND
I found a little post on RYS that reinforced the point that essentially these evals. mean little to my future:
"Your responses provide important information we use to evaluate part-time instructors for re-hiring and scheduling of future classes. Although, to be fair, part-timers are so cheap and pliable, that unless you report that your instructors have been sodomizing animals in lieu of lecturing, we'll probably hire them all back and put them in your classes again next semester. It gives a nice break to our real professors who are trying to get ready for tenure and promotion."
Despite my usual level of anxiety at times like these, I couldn't care less. I already got a nice review from a faculty member and don't really care about what the little grade-grubbers think about my book selections.
I, like my students, am done for the semester. I, like my students, am focusing on my own life.
AND
I found a little post on RYS that reinforced the point that essentially these evals. mean little to my future:
"Your responses provide important information we use to evaluate part-time instructors for re-hiring and scheduling of future classes. Although, to be fair, part-timers are so cheap and pliable, that unless you report that your instructors have been sodomizing animals in lieu of lecturing, we'll probably hire them all back and put them in your classes again next semester. It gives a nice break to our real professors who are trying to get ready for tenure and promotion."
Thursday, December 4, 2008
Success!
Suck on that GRE! Up 160 points! Now All I have left off my list....
Oh yeah, EVERYTHING ELSE!
Oh yeah, EVERYTHING ELSE!
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