First Day of Classes

Today was a long, first day of classes.  I had all 4 College Algebra classes today.  I had a 9:30 - 10:20, 11:30 - 12:20, 1:30 - 2:20 (in another building), and a 2:30 -3:20 (back to the first building).  My throat is killing me, and I am exhausted.  Talking about the same 3 page syllabus 4 times is tiring and annoying.  I'm glad I won't have to do that again this semester.  Walking might not happen today.  The classes went fine, but there was a mixup for one of the classes, and I was scheduled to a room with another class.  Thank goodness that's over.

I brought some work home today because we got a new textbook in Algebra, which sucks because some of it doesn't line up with the old book from last year.  That means I get to redo some of my notes.  Yay.  Can you tell I'm excited?

It's going to be an early night so I'm going to end this now.

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First Day Back at Work

Today was busy.  I had an Algebra meeting in the morning.  Then I walked all the way to the other end of the building (it's a very long building) to Jamie's office.  She one of my closest friends at work, and I only got to see her once during the summer.  We chatted and walked to the Science Building to find out where our rooms are going to be.  Neither of us have had a class in Science before so we didn't even know the layout (we actually had trouble finding our rooms so that should be interesting).  Then when we got back to our building I walked back to my office to get some work done. 

I edited my syllabi (yes, more than one) slightly and worked on other stuff, and next thing I knew, it was after 1:15, and I had a Trigonometry meeting at 2:00.  I needed to eat something.  I came home for lunch even though I brought my lunch today because I needed to mail something, and I left it at home this morning by mistake.  I had 2 Morning Star spicy black bean burgers and a big salad.  Then I mailed my package on my way back into campus (gotta love a college post office, so much better and faster than the real thing, and I pass it everyday heading to my office building).  I went straight back to work as soon as I sat in my office chair.  So much to do before students start classes.  Everything is done (I think) for Wednesday's first day of classes except for my attendance sheets.  I finished one before I left work, but by then it was after 4:30, and I was tired.  Besides, the way I make my attendance sheets, it takes the most time to create the first one.  After that, I can copy most of the info for the other 4 I need to make.  My profession spoils me and makes me forget what it's like to work a full day after 3 months off.  :)  So I came home and immediately changed clothes to walk outside.  I did another 5 miles.  And now after my shower and dinner of sauteed tofu (I know how it sounds, but yummy!), rice, some pumpkin for my veggie (I flavor it to taste just like pumpkin pie), and a strawberry banana smoothie, I am ready for sleep!  I am tired.

  

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Work, work, work

Yesterday I forgot to post something.  Not a whole lot happened.  I had a list of things to do for work this week, but I didn't want to do any of it.  Then, I got a text from one of my coworkers about seeing a movie.  We saw Eat, Pray, Love last night, and it was great!  The girls beside us were annoying because they wouldn't shutup, but the movie was great.  We went to Applebee's for dinner, and I ordered a yummy shrimp dinner that was very healthy (I looked it up ahead of time).  I wanted to workout last night when I got home, but it was after 9:00 when I got home.  Working out got skipped.  Plus, it was raining.  I also weighed yesterday, and I lost 3.6 lbs since the last time I weighed in on here.  Woo hoo!

Today I woke up, ate breakfast, and started working.  I think I finished my Algebra syllabus, I got my Algebra classes set up for online homework, my lesson schedulers are done for Algebra (this tells me what sections to cover each day so I am ready for the already scheduled exams), I emailed the Algebra coordinator a few questions so I can finish everything, and I already requested my classes to be on BlackBoard so that should be ready by Monday.  Now I just need to work on Trigonometry stuff.  I have the syllabus to do and the lesson scheduler for that. 

That will leave attendance sheets to do Tuesday.  I need to wait right before classes start on Wednesday before I make these to include last registering students on my rosters.

I need to walk today.  I am tired from working all morning, and that will make me feel better.

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