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I'm so close to break. I'm a talk with Shawn over the NASCAR project and an exam away from Spring Break.
Tomorrow night: Steelhounds hockey. Hoo-fucking-ray for hard-hitting minor-league hockey only 45 minutes from our front door.
Saturday and Sunday night: Free getaway won from a WKSU (NPR) pledge drive... which we're taking at the lodge of Salt Fork State Park in southern Ohio. It includes three meals and spending money, too! It's an hour from Wheeling, West Virginia, which is a very nice area. And we're sooooooooooooooooooooooooo going to the Cabela's there. If you've never been to a Cabela's and you see one, go. Just trust me -- it's a Wal-Mart sized hunting/fishing store with a huge aquarium of bass and a massive diorama of taxidermy.
Next Saturday night through Sunday: Quickie overnight to Niagara Falls, where Amy will get to see Niagara (and visit both Canada and New York) for the first time. I am especially looking forward to this, because driving along the Niagara River north of Buffalo is pretty surreal, and the falls are pretty amazing as well. Plus, there are so many cheesy souvenirs in that town that we're sure to score at least three really ridiculous magnets.
To get to these things, like I said, I have a couple things to finish. I'm going to talk to Shawn about the NASCAR paper, because I want to get it done and submitted. It'll help me, and it'll help him as he goes for tenure. Plus, I think it's a really cool concept.
Second, I have to give an exam in Intro. The exam is short (only thirty questions) and it really doesn't cover that much because... well, while it's mean to give an exam the day before break, it's even meaner to stretch out the material over a break so it's all forgotten by the time the exam comes. It just happens that there were only five days of material for this exam, so it's short. Two kids have taken it early, and they both did very well. I think it might be too easy, but we'll see what the numbers say. Either way, it's important stuff they should know about the world around them.
Also, I got my teaching assignment for Fall semester. I'm teaching a geography of U.S. and Canada on Saturday morning. Sounds bad, right? Well, it's not. For one, Amy works on Saturday morning, so I would just be jerking around the house anyway. Secondly, I've worked it out so that I'm off on Monday, which, with Sunday is one of Amy's days off. This means for the first time since we got married, we will have two day weekends together every weekend. This is a good, good thing. Beyond that, I'm really looking forward to teaching U.S. and Canada. I think it will be fun, and it's my region of expertise and research. And super cool? It's once a week, which means super-flexibility in what we do.
It's time for bed. Gotta make it to that 10:30 am appointment with Shawn so I can make it to break.
Saturday and Sunday night: Free getaway won from a WKSU (NPR) pledge drive... which we're taking at the lodge of Salt Fork State Park in southern Ohio. It includes three meals and spending money, too! It's an hour from Wheeling, West Virginia, which is a very nice area. And we're sooooooooooooooooooooooooo going to the Cabela's there. If you've never been to a Cabela's and you see one, go. Just trust me -- it's a Wal-Mart sized hunting/fishing store with a huge aquarium of bass and a massive diorama of taxidermy.
Next Saturday night through Sunday: Quickie overnight to Niagara Falls, where Amy will get to see Niagara (and visit both Canada and New York) for the first time. I am especially looking forward to this, because driving along the Niagara River north of Buffalo is pretty surreal, and the falls are pretty amazing as well. Plus, there are so many cheesy souvenirs in that town that we're sure to score at least three really ridiculous magnets.
To get to these things, like I said, I have a couple things to finish. I'm going to talk to Shawn about the NASCAR paper, because I want to get it done and submitted. It'll help me, and it'll help him as he goes for tenure. Plus, I think it's a really cool concept.
Second, I have to give an exam in Intro. The exam is short (only thirty questions) and it really doesn't cover that much because... well, while it's mean to give an exam the day before break, it's even meaner to stretch out the material over a break so it's all forgotten by the time the exam comes. It just happens that there were only five days of material for this exam, so it's short. Two kids have taken it early, and they both did very well. I think it might be too easy, but we'll see what the numbers say. Either way, it's important stuff they should know about the world around them.
Also, I got my teaching assignment for Fall semester. I'm teaching a geography of U.S. and Canada on Saturday morning. Sounds bad, right? Well, it's not. For one, Amy works on Saturday morning, so I would just be jerking around the house anyway. Secondly, I've worked it out so that I'm off on Monday, which, with Sunday is one of Amy's days off. This means for the first time since we got married, we will have two day weekends together every weekend. This is a good, good thing. Beyond that, I'm really looking forward to teaching U.S. and Canada. I think it will be fun, and it's my region of expertise and research. And super cool? It's once a week, which means super-flexibility in what we do.
It's time for bed. Gotta make it to that 10:30 am appointment with Shawn so I can make it to break.
Posted by Your Friendly Neighborhood DJ on March 23, 2006 10:40 PM | Permalink
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