Well, I don't know about y'all, but the theme of my week (besides busy) is paying bills and surfing the Higher Ed job site for any sort of online, part-time instructional technology teaching positions (as a side gig)...seems everyone is looking for Business or Literature teachers instead.
My first 101 class met Wednesday morning, and it went pretty smoothly. My students were just so quiet, and I could not get them to say hardly anything. The first day is a bit overwhelming for them, because this is an orientation class and there are tons of handouts and things to take in. I even made french vanilla coffee with toppings for them, but most of them acted too shy to partake. What a vast difference from observing HS students during my practicum in Fall! They would've knocked each other over to get to a coffee bar, and I would have had a few discipline problems to boot! So I can't complain, all in all.
I also made a couple of awesome bulletin boards at work: one for the office on careers and one for the college to promote campus organizations. I received a lot of positive feedback on these. Sometimes I feel like a working machine.
It's been so warm and humid here that I am loving the cooler temps and gusty winds tonight. I just wish we had a few snowflakes in our forecast too -- jealous of those northwesterners and their blankets of white. I am gearing up for a busy MLK Holiday weekend and will be in touch soon!
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Showing posts with label holidays. Show all posts
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Friday, January 13, 2012
Monday, November 8, 2010
When autumn comes, it doesn't ask.
To have such a sweet tooth and to love sharing the cake wealth, my "slices of life" posts are pretty lean in comparison. Life just gets so busy.
"When autumn comes, it doesn't ask. It just walks in where it left you last," as John Mayer sings. (I know a few eyes just rolled on that one.) And Fall more or less did just that in Georgia this past weekend. The brisk air rolled into town and has settled into the Boro for a bit. I actually wore a light sweater today and was not roasting by 12:00. It is quite welcome (by me) after the 100+ degree temps all summer long.
Every November I think: I don't want this year to be as hectic as the previous holiday, yet it always ends up being an overload of activity and overall rush-rush-rush. No doubt that this year will be the same, but at least it means I will get a few days off from work while seeing "old" friends and family. And I am looking forward to trying out a pretty awesome 3-D Santa cake pan that Elizabeth gave me.
There are some good things coming up on the cake horizon that I will hopefully be able to update on soon...still working on specifics and logistics.
And I couldn't not provide this update since Libby and I successfully completed our first wedding cake: a 3 layer poundcake with buttercream icing, dyed a serene ocean-y shade of periwinkle. White chocolate sand dollars and shells flanked the cake. Real shells my mom and I collected around Amelia Island, Florida this summer were set around the bottom of the cake. The cake was served at a beachside wedding on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, October 30, 2010.
Congratulations to John and Sarah Barber!
"When autumn comes, it doesn't ask. It just walks in where it left you last," as John Mayer sings. (I know a few eyes just rolled on that one.) And Fall more or less did just that in Georgia this past weekend. The brisk air rolled into town and has settled into the Boro for a bit. I actually wore a light sweater today and was not roasting by 12:00. It is quite welcome (by me) after the 100+ degree temps all summer long.
Every November I think: I don't want this year to be as hectic as the previous holiday, yet it always ends up being an overload of activity and overall rush-rush-rush. No doubt that this year will be the same, but at least it means I will get a few days off from work while seeing "old" friends and family. And I am looking forward to trying out a pretty awesome 3-D Santa cake pan that Elizabeth gave me.
There are some good things coming up on the cake horizon that I will hopefully be able to update on soon...still working on specifics and logistics.
And I couldn't not provide this update since Libby and I successfully completed our first wedding cake: a 3 layer poundcake with buttercream icing, dyed a serene ocean-y shade of periwinkle. White chocolate sand dollars and shells flanked the cake. Real shells my mom and I collected around Amelia Island, Florida this summer were set around the bottom of the cake. The cake was served at a beachside wedding on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, October 30, 2010.
Congratulations to John and Sarah Barber!
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