"Dear God...help me get bigger and bigger and bigger...but not big like a giant...help me live a long time like to 39."
Wednesday, September 19, 2012
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
Typical Fall Semester
School starts...it's the start of the 4th week and somehow I'm already behind in grading.
Well, no surprise I guess.
This semester was going to be different though. I have an "easy" semester which means I have classes I've taught at least a few times. My easy prep though has turned into developing some new activities to implement. I also had my gall bladder out the week before classes started so the first few weeks I was basically just teaching and prepping. Minimal grading. Minimal time in the office. It's all beginning to catch up on me.
The only way out now is several late-nighters or even-earlier-than-usual mornings. I'm becoming my mother which means working after midnight is becoming a dream. Waking up at 5 AM? Not too bad. Sometimes I even wake up at that time on my own and can't go back to sleep.
I am becoming my mother!
In other news, I went to a professor workshop this past weekend. I was surrounded by professors from every field and every type of school (large research one universities to two-year colleges). The workshop was helpful and encouraging (aka it was nice to commiserate with other non-tenured, junior faculty members). But I was reminded of something: I truly am a nerd.
I thought maybe leaving graduate school behind meant that I had left nerdom behind.
Nope.
At dinner the first night, I had some professors sitting next to me that were from different non-science areas. We were able to visit, but conversation was a bit stilted. On the other side of me, there were two science professors. When I talked to them, not only was I laughing, I had THEM laughing. (If you know me, you know that people don't describe me as "hilarious" usually.) Science nerds unite!
After this past weekend, I reaffirmed something about myself. I really do enjoy some science talk. I like dumb science jokes. I like sharing funny laboratory stories.
And I'm okay with that.
Mostly.
Well, no surprise I guess.
This semester was going to be different though. I have an "easy" semester which means I have classes I've taught at least a few times. My easy prep though has turned into developing some new activities to implement. I also had my gall bladder out the week before classes started so the first few weeks I was basically just teaching and prepping. Minimal grading. Minimal time in the office. It's all beginning to catch up on me.
The only way out now is several late-nighters or even-earlier-than-usual mornings. I'm becoming my mother which means working after midnight is becoming a dream. Waking up at 5 AM? Not too bad. Sometimes I even wake up at that time on my own and can't go back to sleep.
I am becoming my mother!
In other news, I went to a professor workshop this past weekend. I was surrounded by professors from every field and every type of school (large research one universities to two-year colleges). The workshop was helpful and encouraging (aka it was nice to commiserate with other non-tenured, junior faculty members). But I was reminded of something: I truly am a nerd.
I thought maybe leaving graduate school behind meant that I had left nerdom behind.
Nope.
At dinner the first night, I had some professors sitting next to me that were from different non-science areas. We were able to visit, but conversation was a bit stilted. On the other side of me, there were two science professors. When I talked to them, not only was I laughing, I had THEM laughing. (If you know me, you know that people don't describe me as "hilarious" usually.) Science nerds unite!
After this past weekend, I reaffirmed something about myself. I really do enjoy some science talk. I like dumb science jokes. I like sharing funny laboratory stories.
And I'm okay with that.
Mostly.
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