And I am amazed by the students. The audacity, the excuses, the poorly written emails.
Also amazed that one of my classes did really, really well. And the others weren't totally horrible.
I am sure next week will be full of tears from students and emails from "higher-ups" about me being so mean.
Oh well.
Sickness is pretty much a guarantee for all teachers. That many hours with that many kids ... you're gonna catch something.
You think as a college professor, I'd be less likely to get sick than a kindergarden teacher. But college students are probably a lot more likely to show up to class sick than 4-year-olds. There isn't a mommy to tell the college kid to stay home.
So, just 2 weeks in to my first semester as a college professor and I got a head cold. Lame.
Nope. I don't mean I get paid on Mondays.
I mean I pay for the fact that I didn't do work all weekend. With a 9:30am-4:50pm solid block of teaching. That's right, over 7 straight hours of teaching.
Not that I can really do work on the weekends to reduce my Monday work load. But I will definitely further enjoy my work-free weekends knowing what is going to hit me on Mondays!
I have hardly ever worked less on a weekend.
I only did about an hour of work this weekend.
And not just because we were busy with family and friends (we were), but because there wasn't too much work that I HAD to get done by Monday morning. Sure, I could have prepared ahead, but I didn't HAVE to.
This is in stark contrats to my life as a grad student. I usually worked a whole lot every weekend. Either in the lab (because fish don't know the difference between Saturday and Wednesday), or writing at home. Or doing some stupid thing that I got roped in to doing that wasn't really required of me.
I like my new job.
And I figure next year will be even easier than this!
Yay!
Stop putting so many exclamation points in professional emails!
(I find that I punctuate far more with exclamation points than periods or question marks!)
I might have been working here all summer, but I feel like today is my first official day!
It's the start of my first fall semester as a professor!!!
This morning's 7:15am conversation with Boss:
Boss: "Good morning. You excited?"
Me: "GOOD MORNING! Yes, I am soooo excited."
Boss: "Oh, yeah, me too. So excited. Wait .... you really are excited aren't you?"
Me: "Yes!!! I really am!!"
Boss: "Sigh."
Me: "I baked you an apple pie."
And so the semester begins ......
Well, Ry leaves for China in 2 days, I am finishing up the last 2 weeks of this summer session and getting ready for the 1st week of the third summer session ... which someone else will be teaching for me because I will be at a scientific conference in Virginia ... during which I need to give a 30 minute presentation that I have barely thought about ... plus we're still not all unpacked at the new apartment yet and we'd like to be soon so that we can start having some guests over .... and don't get me started on the lack of wedding planning .....
So maybe more blogging in a few weeks?
