Blogging from work
I can finally blog from work. Not that I have anything exciting to say, but at least I can kill a little bit of time in office hours by blogging. This ten-hour-a-week office hour thing really sucks. No one ever comes by. Maybe when we finally start giving speeches, more students will come by then, but for now, my little cubicle is feeling like a cage. And while I’m in a bitchtastic mood, my class schedule really sucks. I really hope that next fall I get a better schedule. These huge blocks of time in between classes are really just annoying.
Other than that, I’m really loving working here. It’s a totally different population and I am having to adjust more than I thought I would. I’m just flying through material and I don’t have a clue if the students are getting it or not. I feel hamstrung that I can’t make copies of things without spending my own money. I would love to develop and pass out worksheets, but I would just spend my whole paycheck doing that. Anyway, it’s going to take me a couple of semesters to adjust. I’m not too optimistic about how my teaching evaluations will be this semester.
After a conversation with one of my colleagues (shoutout to Amy A.), I realized I really need to spend some time working on the exams with the students and possibly give them essay questions along with the speech the week before. I don’t really like doing that, so maybe I can devise another teaching strategy.
There is nothing too exciting on the front pages today. More deaths in Iraq. More speculation about war with Iran. More global warming. It’s just depressing. I think I got interested in politics again at the most recent election because the dem win made me feel hopeful that things will change. I suppose it is too soon to tell, though.
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