Thursday, July 24, 2008
Happy Birthday Lindsay!
A quick happy birthday to my sister in law Lindsay! She's far away in Mexico, probably spending the day in class and studying, but hopefully she can have a little time to celebrate! We'll be seeing her in about a week in CA so we can celebrate with her a little late....until then, have a great day!!
Monday, July 21, 2008
A nice Sunday
Yes, haven't been writing much lately.. Really, because nothing exciting has been going on and I try not to bore people.
After finishing grading and calculating my grades on Saturday, I was SO ready for a 'day off' on Sunday where I did not think about school all day (except for an hour or so in the morning when I worked). I went to a great brunch with my sister at the oh so yummy Sun in my belly and then Matt and I headed to the mall to pick up a few things for our ***trip*** (yay!). Matt had bought tickets for a 7pm showing of Dark Knight that evening, so we went on our way home from the mall. We waited in line to enter the theater but once in, got good seats and really enjoyed the movie. It is long....but so good. And of course, Christian Bale is just the best:)
Back to work for the week until we leave town- there's so much to do!
After finishing grading and calculating my grades on Saturday, I was SO ready for a 'day off' on Sunday where I did not think about school all day (except for an hour or so in the morning when I worked). I went to a great brunch with my sister at the oh so yummy Sun in my belly and then Matt and I headed to the mall to pick up a few things for our ***trip*** (yay!). Matt had bought tickets for a 7pm showing of Dark Knight that evening, so we went on our way home from the mall. We waited in line to enter the theater but once in, got good seats and really enjoyed the movie. It is long....but so good. And of course, Christian Bale is just the best:)
Back to work for the week until we leave town- there's so much to do!
Friday, July 11, 2008
Coming to an end....
It's been a busy few weeks- not particularly exciting, but busy with summer school and such. Next week, everything is 'due'- my stuff and my students' final work, so after that will be lots of grading and turning in grades. I'm hoping to get a lot of planning done for fall semester which starts in a month (ah!) before we leave town (more on that later)....
Today was my last day of bootcamp. I've really enjoyed it, despite the early mornings (especially when I had to go the 6am instead of the 7am if I had an early meeting). I feel like my fitness has really increased, and this week on all of our 'end of camp' activities where we compare our scores and times to the first week, I improved greatly! I did almost twice as many push ups and squats as I did in week 1 today- woo hoo!
We also ran the Peachtree Road Race last week, which is a 10k. After going to bootcamp Monday-Thursday that week and the fact that I am not a runner by any means, running 10k on Friday was a little rough. It was my second year, but this year seemed harder- I think it was a combination of being sore from bootcamp and that the ending was more uphill than last year, which made my final impressions of the race very negative overall. We pretty much passed out for the rest of the day, so our 4th of July was pretty uneventful but fun.
We have a pretty laid-back weekend planned for this one. Hope yours is good!
Today was my last day of bootcamp. I've really enjoyed it, despite the early mornings (especially when I had to go the 6am instead of the 7am if I had an early meeting). I feel like my fitness has really increased, and this week on all of our 'end of camp' activities where we compare our scores and times to the first week, I improved greatly! I did almost twice as many push ups and squats as I did in week 1 today- woo hoo!
We also ran the Peachtree Road Race last week, which is a 10k. After going to bootcamp Monday-Thursday that week and the fact that I am not a runner by any means, running 10k on Friday was a little rough. It was my second year, but this year seemed harder- I think it was a combination of being sore from bootcamp and that the ending was more uphill than last year, which made my final impressions of the race very negative overall. We pretty much passed out for the rest of the day, so our 4th of July was pretty uneventful but fun.
We have a pretty laid-back weekend planned for this one. Hope yours is good!
Saturday, June 28, 2008
Job. Check.
About two weeks ago, my department chair asked to meet with me and out of the blue (to me) offered me a full-time faculty position in my department as a Clinical Instructor. An explanation- (if you really don't want the details skip to the next paragraph).... The position is to teach and be the coordinator for the ESOL certification we have just begun to offer the students in the undergraduate program in my department. This consists of 4 optional classes in addition to their regular bachelors degree. Eventually, the goal is to integrate these courses into all the required literacy courses they take since it's a fact that all teachers will have these students in their classrooms soon. A Clinical Instructor is a position that is not tenure track and may or may not be held by someone with a PhD....basically, it means you are expected to teach a lot more than do research. So...I'll be teaching 3-4 classes a semester and coordinating the program.
Whew! Bored yet? So....this was honestly an amazing offer and I felt so honored that I was asked. She was interviewing a couple of people, but said if I wanted the job it was mine. Wow! I felt like turning around and saying- Are you talking to me, are you sure about that? It's a wonderful opportunity- more money, benefits, incredible new teaching opportunities that will look great when I graduate and apply for a job, and I get to park in the faculty deck (I may be the most excited about that). But, it definitely means that I won't have as much time to work on my prospectus (dissertation proposal) and then conduct my research in schools, so it meant that I needed to think about this for a bit. Plus, I am teaching 3 brand new classes....lots of planning there. Did I mention these classes start mid-August? Ah....
After sitting down with my adviser and planning out how it should be possible to only push my graduation back a semester to a year later (hopefully!), I decided to accept the job! Although the position is considered temporary and is on a year to year contract, there's a good chance it would continue each year based on our projected enrollment.
Friday morning, I found out that the Dean had officially approved me for the position- yay! So...if you don't hear from me much this year, you know why now! Now, I need to go plan 3 syllabi:)
Whew! Bored yet? So....this was honestly an amazing offer and I felt so honored that I was asked. She was interviewing a couple of people, but said if I wanted the job it was mine. Wow! I felt like turning around and saying- Are you talking to me, are you sure about that? It's a wonderful opportunity- more money, benefits, incredible new teaching opportunities that will look great when I graduate and apply for a job, and I get to park in the faculty deck (I may be the most excited about that). But, it definitely means that I won't have as much time to work on my prospectus (dissertation proposal) and then conduct my research in schools, so it meant that I needed to think about this for a bit. Plus, I am teaching 3 brand new classes....lots of planning there. Did I mention these classes start mid-August? Ah....
After sitting down with my adviser and planning out how it should be possible to only push my graduation back a semester to a year later (hopefully!), I decided to accept the job! Although the position is considered temporary and is on a year to year contract, there's a good chance it would continue each year based on our projected enrollment.
Friday morning, I found out that the Dean had officially approved me for the position- yay! So...if you don't hear from me much this year, you know why now! Now, I need to go plan 3 syllabi:)
Sunday, June 22, 2008
New babies rock!
Our friends Ben & Blythe (and big sister Elena) welcomed baby Colin into the world on Thursday. Isn't he a cutie? We went to see them in the hospital on Saturday and everyone is doing well. Congrats guys! We took some pics but haven't uploaded them yet. This one is from the proud parents.
In other news, it's been a busy week....We saw R.E.M. last night which was great and went to dinner at Restaurant Eugene for Matt's bday on Friday, which was excellent despite being a little stuffy.
Summer school is keeping me busy and I've been working most of the weekend. Hope everyone else had a good one!
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Happy Birthday Matt
Happy birthday to my handsome, sweet, and smart husband...how did I get so lucky? Although he's less than thrilled about it as usual, I hope that he'll have a nice day and fun celebrating. He's got a work dinner thing and neither of us can get away for lunch, so we'll really celebrate on Friday night when I take him to dinner. And, now since he just loves me posting pics of him on the blog, here's one of my favorites from the wedding....Love you honey:)
Sunday, June 15, 2008
Happy Father's Day!
....To all the fathers out there:) We're going to dinner with my dad soon and we're sending lots of love out to CA to my father-in-law. Happy Fathers Day to two wonderful dads!
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