Tomorrow is the first day of Spring semester. (Quick sidenote: I always thought we were supposed to capitalize seasons. Am I wrong? Because I seem to be the only one who either totally is rocking this rule, or the only one who misunderstood that part during capitalization day). As is my custom, I'm up far too late and decided that instead of going to bed early or at least doing my Bible study or something really beneficial, I should blog to no one instead. I haven't told anyone about my newfound blogging adventures, and I'm not commenting on other blogs with my handy blog address attached, so I'm guessing right now, my audience is myself. That's not such a bad thing, since I'm often totally amused by myself, and it might allow me some time to get my flow going. But if I was going to tell anyone, who would I tell? What if something hilarious but somewhat embarassing happens to someone I know and I am dying to blog about it, but I can't for fear of offending them if they came here to read this? What if I tell someone, they hate it, and then they avoid me for the rest of my life so they don't have to haltingly lie about liking it when we see each other? What if......I could go on all night here. Well, I'll work through writing for an actual audience later. Right now, I'll just write.
I am excited to begin teaching this next semester. I am teaching one course I taught last semester that I loved, and two sections of a new course at my new university. I have taught this class twice at my previous university, but there are some marked differences between the content/book/activities that are currently being used here. I have a lot of good information to share with the secondary education students taking this literacy course. But I always secretly prepare myself for their skepticism when they hear that my background in teaching is elementary. Early elementary! That experience comes in very handy with my elementary teacher ed students, but not so much with the secondary ones. I don't present myself as worried about this, but I still am. My right eyelid is twitching as I write this. That is a sign that I am stressed or tired. Or perhaps that I am a shifty character. One of those three options. You choose which one you think it could be. I know the truth. :)
I have not totally nailed down my first day schedule for the two classes I teach tomorrow. I have a good idea, but it is not all laid out nicely in my preferred lesson plan format. There are many reasons for this. The least of these is that I know I have time in the office tomorrow (4 hours!) and I'll be able to create it fresh. That is true, but I had hoped to be done with that tonight. 3 kids and life got in the way. And honestly, I had an important task to do tonight. Some friends bought a rabbit. They got it yesterday, and named it something petlike and stupid like Blackie or Gray-ie, or some other color name. Color names should be banned as names for pets. They are unoriginal and boring. So my 13 year old middle daughter and I decided the rabbit's name should be Dave. Now that's funny you see because it is a normal name, not a name when you are trying to think of a funny people name for a pet like Bob or George. We decide the key to getting the name to stick is to use it repeatedly the entire time we were there, which we did, ad naseum. "Hey, Dave's trying to escape!" we exclaimed. "Maybe Dave would like a walk?" we enquired. "Dave seems awfully peppy!" we remarked. It seemed to work. Our work there complete, we came home. So that's the real reason why I don't have beautiful complete lesson plans for tomorrow. I was busy trying to brainwash my friends into naming their rabbit something cool. At least I'll have a good story for my class tomorrow. And I'll need it, as I'll be killing time if I don't get my plans written out.
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