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Sep. 5th, 2007 08:09 amWell, first off is the fact that the fall semester started last week, so that's the reason I've been seen a little less often around here than usual. Been busy settling in. I'm teaching 4 courses, three Math for Liberal Arts classes and one Ordinary Differential Equations class. So far things are going well, but today is the first quiz, which is where things start going ugly (if they're going to go ugly). Everything's fine and dandy until they realize they are actually going to be graded. We'll see what happens.
On the writing front, I took a good week or two off to get prepped and to adjust to the new schedule, but yesterday I sat down and continued writing Well of Sorrows. Got a little over a thousand words written in about an hour, so once the schedule settles in even more I should be able to get a few thousand words written per week, if not more. Which is good because I've got half the novel to write this semester. But I actually did some writing, which feels good.
And lastly for now, there's been an addition to the family: a new guinea pig. No name yet, although Mocha seems to be the front runner. I got her so that we can have a few litters, because guinea pigs are born with fur and eyes open. In fact, you wake up one morning and you essentially have up to four miniature guinea pigs running around the cage. This won't happen for a while, since Mocha is maybe 2 months old right now. But in another year . . .
Anyway, that's the quick update, in case anyone was wondering where the hell I was. Now off to campus. Math for Liberal Arts classes all day today, with quizzes. I think this will be the slap in the face the students need to realize that summer is over and they need to get serious. We'll see. Perhaps they don't neeed the slap. You never know.
On the writing front, I took a good week or two off to get prepped and to adjust to the new schedule, but yesterday I sat down and continued writing Well of Sorrows. Got a little over a thousand words written in about an hour, so once the schedule settles in even more I should be able to get a few thousand words written per week, if not more. Which is good because I've got half the novel to write this semester. But I actually did some writing, which feels good.
And lastly for now, there's been an addition to the family: a new guinea pig. No name yet, although Mocha seems to be the front runner. I got her so that we can have a few litters, because guinea pigs are born with fur and eyes open. In fact, you wake up one morning and you essentially have up to four miniature guinea pigs running around the cage. This won't happen for a while, since Mocha is maybe 2 months old right now. But in another year . . .
Anyway, that's the quick update, in case anyone was wondering where the hell I was. Now off to campus. Math for Liberal Arts classes all day today, with quizzes. I think this will be the slap in the face the students need to realize that summer is over and they need to get serious. We'll see. Perhaps they don't neeed the slap. You never know.
