What's on my mind in a typical day?
I know I took on too much this year at times. But now that the results are streaming in it feels so damn good.
I taught one college class in person on Mondays and Wednesdays. Tonight I saw one of my students on the nightly news working the court in Broward. The case is interesting: the judge threw a juror in jail for not answering a question about his past correctly. My student is a bailiff. You can read about the case here . Anyways, my student is a very opinionated, and often wrong fellow, who looked like he was working hard on TV walking the accused to his seat. He was only lazy in my class, I guess. Paying for a degree seems pretty stupid, but that's what you get when there are no entrance requirements. Welcome to my world.
The two online classes I taught are over. The grades have been corrected and I have no email when I login. Oh man. That is such a relief to have NO emails when I log in there!! That might feel as good as not getting paid haha. I hated the computer applications course but the Networking course was really fun to teach. I might keep in contact with some of those students. Oh and I actually did fail a few students in the computer applications course.
My graduate course at the local university is wrapping up. I'm typing up a historiographical paper concerning the Spanish Inqusition. I've got Netanyahu's tome open next to me to page 843. If you want to look scholarly just walk around with a 1,200 page book about the Inquisition.
I even had a good day at the chess club...The best player in the school came back for our little "tournament" and now I've got to order the damn trophies!!! I can't let that go anymore...So I still have a little stress :)
In my "worst class" there was actually fighting about GRADES TODAY! Even though the vitriol and hate was directed at my grading scheme and the mistakes my girlfriend made in correcting their papers- they were still concerned about passing a course! I'm happy!!!
Before the end of the day I overheard a girl say that she loves my class and she told me that she met some other people from different periods who can tell "I really love history." If that's all they remember about me, I'd be a happy guy.
What else have I done this semester? Oh I finished that computer training at the high school. I'm installing Fedora on the server I bought from Dell...
Of course I'm just dabbling here and there and there's no profitablity in that. But I've got too many damn interests...Maybe I'd get less done if I took up social drinking. Lol, it'd probably do more for my bottom line in 10 years. But who knows what will come of anything? Maybe the server I'm dabbling with now will become my true passion?
Or maybe I don't have a true passion and I'll always just dabble in different areas.
Oh and the word I couldn't think of earlier came to me while I was reading a cereal box: putative.
:)
2 comments:
Paying for a degree doesn't sound as bad as it used to...
Because once you think about it a little, we ALL do that.
I'm paying for one too.
You paid for one.
Maybe the students who attend schools with no entrance requirements are the ones who've got it right. HA.
Less work, and you still get that piece of paper that validates your "intelligence", regardless of whether you have any or not.
Good point :)
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