So after playing with authority records at the library for about two hours, I took my first German 101 test. I was the first one done. That either means that I did really well or I did really badly. After that was running to the Ikon copy place for copies of my hand-outs for my French students as well as grabbing a Univ 101 book from the bookstore ('Cause I still didn't have a copy from the lady I'm taking the class over from yet!). I got about five minutes to glance over the chapter listed for the class today before running to the tutoring center to help a middle-aged man with French 101. Then it was off to teach University 101. Most of the class seems pretty sedate (as in "sleeping in class"), but there was one student who seemed to like to talk a lot, either to me or to the two girls on either side of him. After an hour of blabbing mindlessly about test-taking and how to prepare for a speech, I collected their journals to grade later then ran out to the library for their Extravaganza! appreciation lunch (I helped put up tablecloths and set up the laminating table for the library's open house which they call an "Extravaganza!") which consisted of some tacos and cheesecake. I ate a taco, no cheescake. Cheesecake is nasty.
So from there it was running to SMWC to give my students their tests back (They did so well!) and then go over the Middle Ages and feudalism. Then I had a half hour to run back to the apartment to drop off the van and my books, change sneakers and grab an apple to eat as I walked to the tutoring center where I was only two minutes late for my appointment with a physics student. It's really too bad that Nick moved to Muncie because that means there's only one guy at the Physics Help Center for two hours a week, so I get stuck with the students who can't be there for his hours! So after fighting with her to try to get her to understand triangles, I went out to the lobby and read some of my Big Grammar book while waiting for my next physics student. He didn't show up, so at a quarter after five, I came home to read the paper for ten minutes until Ian got home. We chit-chatted a bit before I plopped down to study and he plopped down to SWG. So I've been bouncing between watching Zim and reading about the English copula. I think it's time to write that journal entry for tomorrow since I'm sitting here. Or I might try chatting. I haven't done that in a while. Or I might just watch the cat continue to attack the straps on my backpack. That'd be fun too.
Posted: September 20, 2004 at nine-thirty at night or so.