so...i found out on thursday (i should not check my email in class, even if the students were working on their own to fill out the review for the exam...) that a friend of mine had died. the husband-wife team (Rick and Lori) of my favorite quilt store, Rick died...i am so sad for lori and for the family...this was a surprise - she sent an email around 3 a.m. saying they are at the hospital and then second one at around 9 a.m. saying that he had died. i am sad. he was not old enough (is anyone old enough?)...he was in his 50s! tomorrow is the visitation...we are heading up to wilson, nc to see lori and be sad. i wish there was something we could do to help her...suggestions welcome.
on other points - i figured out that i have applied to at least 100 different places in the last year...i also figured out that one place i interviewed (but did not get offered the position) hired someone from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute (read: TONS of experience and at an AWESOME school!) - i can't believe that i was in competition with someone with that kind of back ground...so i guess that there is something to that - i have the power, but i also have a lot of competition...
sigh.
peace
the oh, so exciting life of a doctor of fisheries/biology...working as an instructor of biology...
Saturday, January 26, 2013
Wednesday, January 2, 2013
new year...(duh!)
well, it is a new year...and nothing much has changed.
gearing up for the next semester - starts on monday-next. i have already done soem things on moodle, the web-based course communication tool that bcc uses...i need to try to catch up more now than at the last minute...need to make a saturday/sunday pledge to be sure that the next week is visable to students - i suppose i could make it all available, but i like to make changes...we shall see.
finally read stranger in a strange land and it was really good - i can't believe that i didn't read this quite some time ago...robert heinline is really a neat author, he has some good imagination...
gonna go and do more stuff - or not : )
peace.
gearing up for the next semester - starts on monday-next. i have already done soem things on moodle, the web-based course communication tool that bcc uses...i need to try to catch up more now than at the last minute...need to make a saturday/sunday pledge to be sure that the next week is visable to students - i suppose i could make it all available, but i like to make changes...we shall see.
finally read stranger in a strange land and it was really good - i can't believe that i didn't read this quite some time ago...robert heinline is really a neat author, he has some good imagination...
gonna go and do more stuff - or not : )
peace.
Monday, December 10, 2012
thinking...
today was Mom's birthday...sigh...thinking about her off and on all day...
thrusday is the last day of the semester (!). i have signed my contracts for next semester and i am looking forward to break and then starting thing all over again...i have got to ask how to make sure the semester don't run together and make me think i have talked about something that we have not covered yet...i am sure it is just as frustrating to the students as to me...wow. there has to be a trick some where, huh? i will ask around.
i have been making pocket kitties (and a pocket puppy) from The Red Boot Quilt Company (http://www.redbootquilts.com ) she is AWESOME and has some really cute patterns - very heavy on the applique, but a lot of fun and really cute. i can't wait to make more - so far i have been working with fake-fur and "minkie" fabric and they are really cute, but they were originally devloped for "flat" fabric and they are still cute...they have a built-in kickstand : ) their tails : ) i will make more and post photos as i take them...she has also posted a pattern for a cute bird (free!), so check out her blog at the above address and you can find a link to her store for patterns in paper and pdf format - the pdfs are pretty cheap...be aware that she is in Australia and therefore a WAY different time-zone than us here in North Carolina : )...she will contact you back ASAP... she is fun and nice and neat and she has a very dry sense of humor (based on email conversations and blog-reading)...hope she is really a nice person, she is very creative...
anyways - here are the photos of the first Kleber pocket kitty... front and side (showing kickstand) - they are only about 3 inches tall =^..^=
ok...the end of the semester can't come fast enough, but is coming too soon...and then the crazyness of the holidays and all that jazz...wonder if we can go on a blackout of all the crazies? probably not, as some of them are our families (haha!).
wishing that one of my students had not doused their study-guide with a blob of perfume of some kind - it is 3 feet away and in the middle of a stack of papers ~1.5 inches thick and i can still smell it! wow! thank you that i do not live with that student!
ok - enough for today. missing mom, overwhelmed by the end of the semester, and a friend in the hospital for a reason we are not sure of yet (thoughts and love to her!), and then to add to that: all that i need/want to do...sigh...all i can do is keep breathing : ) and remember the what the white rectangle on the back of my care *used* to say "the only constant is change" (from Mom)...
peace.
thrusday is the last day of the semester (!). i have signed my contracts for next semester and i am looking forward to break and then starting thing all over again...i have got to ask how to make sure the semester don't run together and make me think i have talked about something that we have not covered yet...i am sure it is just as frustrating to the students as to me...wow. there has to be a trick some where, huh? i will ask around.
i have been making pocket kitties (and a pocket puppy) from The Red Boot Quilt Company (http://www.redbootquilts.com ) she is AWESOME and has some really cute patterns - very heavy on the applique, but a lot of fun and really cute. i can't wait to make more - so far i have been working with fake-fur and "minkie" fabric and they are really cute, but they were originally devloped for "flat" fabric and they are still cute...they have a built-in kickstand : ) their tails : ) i will make more and post photos as i take them...she has also posted a pattern for a cute bird (free!), so check out her blog at the above address and you can find a link to her store for patterns in paper and pdf format - the pdfs are pretty cheap...be aware that she is in Australia and therefore a WAY different time-zone than us here in North Carolina : )...she will contact you back ASAP... she is fun and nice and neat and she has a very dry sense of humor (based on email conversations and blog-reading)...hope she is really a nice person, she is very creative...
anyways - here are the photos of the first Kleber pocket kitty... front and side (showing kickstand) - they are only about 3 inches tall =^..^=
ok...the end of the semester can't come fast enough, but is coming too soon...and then the crazyness of the holidays and all that jazz...wonder if we can go on a blackout of all the crazies? probably not, as some of them are our families (haha!).
wishing that one of my students had not doused their study-guide with a blob of perfume of some kind - it is 3 feet away and in the middle of a stack of papers ~1.5 inches thick and i can still smell it! wow! thank you that i do not live with that student!
ok - enough for today. missing mom, overwhelmed by the end of the semester, and a friend in the hospital for a reason we are not sure of yet (thoughts and love to her!), and then to add to that: all that i need/want to do...sigh...all i can do is keep breathing : ) and remember the what the white rectangle on the back of my care *used* to say "the only constant is change" (from Mom)...
peace.
Sunday, December 2, 2012
hope springs II
well, i have an interview tomorrow afternoon (via Skype)...we shall see...i am not even sure i want the job, but it sure would be fun (in Maine, teaching a VERY small group of girls) and i know i would learn A LOT...
at the same time, i am still applying for other jobs - in IL - who knows, it sounds like an awesome place to work (big community college) with tenure options...as well as NC, PA, etc.
who knows...
just a little up-date
and a cool sera-eye picture - i swear she was not crabby, she was on my lap : ) (taken with my iPad).
peace
at the same time, i am still applying for other jobs - in IL - who knows, it sounds like an awesome place to work (big community college) with tenure options...as well as NC, PA, etc.
who knows...
just a little up-date
and a cool sera-eye picture - i swear she was not crabby, she was on my lap : ) (taken with my iPad).
peace
Friday, November 16, 2012
hope springs eturnal...
i have just applied for three more positions...who the heck knows what will happen, but i cannot give up. i know i have a job starting january (at the college where i am currently employed), but the three positions for which i just applied also begin in january...yikes!
oh, well...i have also applied for a few positions that do not begin until august. and all shall be well.
another image that makes me smile (it has been around on facebook for a while - just saw it come up for the 2nd time yesterday)
oh, well...i have also applied for a few positions that do not begin until august. and all shall be well.
another image that makes me smile (it has been around on facebook for a while - just saw it come up for the 2nd time yesterday)
enjoy : )
peace.
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
well...
one of the guys i work with just got a FT job. i am frustrated...i am applying EVERYWHERE that it fits and still...nothing. i guess he applied to the same school 4 times and 4 is the charm...sigh.
i am not giving up, but i am feeling discouraged.
on the other hand, i am still really LOVING my job. i just wish i could have the more security of FT (including the ability to get a flu shot for less than $30). i am having a good time getting the information to/from my students and seeing that they are learning and also enjoying the process of learning. we did a DNA-thing that included twizzlers and marshmallows : )...also, we were able to "see our DNA." This is one of my favorite labs of the semester. and we are winding down for the semester. i know i need more labs and i need to think about getting this stuff on-line. the dean would love to have it 100% on-line...i am not 100% sure that would be possible, but i think we could probably work something out...i guess that is a goal i need to do ASAP.
ok...finished with the frustration of the day...not as frustrated as i was yesterday, because i talked to the guy who got the job...it is also not a job for which i would have applied (anatomy and physiology)...it will all be good. i know it deep down, i just am READY NOW! ok. breathe...
done for now - more later and more fun.
this makes me laugh...i love beaker : )
peace : )
i am not giving up, but i am feeling discouraged.
on the other hand, i am still really LOVING my job. i just wish i could have the more security of FT (including the ability to get a flu shot for less than $30). i am having a good time getting the information to/from my students and seeing that they are learning and also enjoying the process of learning. we did a DNA-thing that included twizzlers and marshmallows : )...also, we were able to "see our DNA." This is one of my favorite labs of the semester. and we are winding down for the semester. i know i need more labs and i need to think about getting this stuff on-line. the dean would love to have it 100% on-line...i am not 100% sure that would be possible, but i think we could probably work something out...i guess that is a goal i need to do ASAP.
ok...finished with the frustration of the day...not as frustrated as i was yesterday, because i talked to the guy who got the job...it is also not a job for which i would have applied (anatomy and physiology)...it will all be good. i know it deep down, i just am READY NOW! ok. breathe...
done for now - more later and more fun.
this makes me laugh...i love beaker : )
peace : )
Thursday, November 8, 2012
it is getting to be that time of the year...
it is coming up to thanksgiving again...guess this happens every year, huh? waiting for the OSU-Michigan game, too...six years ago mom died. it *is* getting easier, but still sad...and trying to figure out some new traditions. this year will be home and hanging - gonna have two sets of exams to grade, but it will be low-stress and the movie The Life of Pi is coming out on that wednesday. sounds like a plan to go and see some movies and then come back and grade - just going to have to get through all the B.S. surrounding thursday and friday.
classes are crazy - i am further behind than i have been in the past...it will happen, too. i will be teaching three classes next semester - i hope to be better at timing - i will have two 112 and one 111...one of the 112 and the 111 are 4-days a week 1.5 hrs/day = sweet! i am hoping that we can increase the numbers of labs, etc.
i am *still* applying for jobs...and still breathing through the process...some are more-easy to apply to, some are are real pain in the fanny.
Peace for now.
classes are crazy - i am further behind than i have been in the past...it will happen, too. i will be teaching three classes next semester - i hope to be better at timing - i will have two 112 and one 111...one of the 112 and the 111 are 4-days a week 1.5 hrs/day = sweet! i am hoping that we can increase the numbers of labs, etc.
i am *still* applying for jobs...and still breathing through the process...some are more-easy to apply to, some are are real pain in the fanny.
Peace for now.
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