Showing posts with label Fall. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fall. Show all posts

Monday, October 20, 2008

Monday Blues


This school year has been especially trying. The last few weeks have been extremely difficult to get through. The new subject matter is difficult to comprehend and exceptionally difficult to explain to a 17 year old with no background in business. Coupled with a terribly written textbook, it could be the perfect storm. Thinking back, about this time last year I was dealing with the same feelings about my SDAIE class; feeling completely inept, unprepared and ineffective. Although our department is wonderful, I still feel quite alone. This lag between labor day and veterans day is very long, as Penner says, "it's the dog days of fall". Will it ever end? Any words of wisdom to help get me through?


Monday, September 1, 2008

Update


The passed few days have been somewhat of a fall teaser. The weather has been unbelievably wonderful (high of 90 degrees?) and you can smell fall in the air. School has officially started, so that means I will be MIA for the next 8 months. I am attempting to not become a hermit, but I can't make any promises. There are other things in life now that are bringing out the hermit in me. I started reading the Twilight series and for those of you who have read it or are currently reading it, you know exactly how deep the obsession runs. I've had to start limiting the amount of time I spend reading it (2-3 hours a day?). With the combination of school starting, the heat, and Twilight, it has left little time for working on the house. But, I thought I would include the little progress we have made; so here's a current list of what we have accomplished thus far: 1. We have painted another wall in the living room (2 down, 2 to go). 2. Mike finished stripping the paint off the fireplace (goooo Mike). 3. Jeff cleaned out the garage and hooked up the dryer. He's getting quite good at killing black widows, by the way. 4. We've picked out the design and color palette for the house, now we have to implement that. 5. Jeff cleaned out boy room, so he, Matt and Phil can escape from womankind and play music and the wii without girlfriend/wife interference. All in all, pretty productive month. The next month will be fun (painting the exterior!!!). It will look like a different house! Photos to come!