April 6, 2009
-
1 Well, here we are.
2 It's already Mondeee, and I am tanned, rested, and ready.
3 Hope the weekend worked for you. It sorta did for me, but as always, not as much as I woulda liked.
4 I always underestimate how fast weekends fly by. On Frideee, I had finished with my best week yet up at the Chill, but still needed to get ready for today.
5 Well, I somehow spent the entire weekend buried in online classes, and woke up like twenty minutes ago realizing that I hadn't done anything productive the entire time.
6 Whoops.
7 Allow me to qualify that.
8 I DID finish my first semester in college in like around a hundred years.
9 For the record, this second 3-unit class resulted in another 100%, 85 out of 85 points in five weeks, and I'm quite certain that I can get that up to at LEAST 90% by tonight.
10 Which all sounds grand until you look down at my ankle bracelet.
11 jk.
12 The workload continues to be relentless.
13 But on Thursdeee and Fridee, it did produce dividends, that' fo sho.
14 I set my classroom up to resemble a classic coffeehouse, complete with lava lamps, Starbuck's lamps, microphone, jazz music, and poetry.
15 I even made pots of coffee for my students. The brand? Starbuck's. The beans?
16 Verona, of course.
17 For those of you who don't know, Verona is the town in Italy that was the setting for Romeo and Juliet. = ) <------sideways smiley dude
18 The students caught that, and it all was such a fun coupla days that I felt I got paid to watch students do a poetry slam.
19 I loved every moment of it.
20 Anyway, if someone asked me to describe my favorite week ever, this would be up there with some of the best, and I mean that!
21 I had an open mic that worked, and the students ate all of it up.
22 I included free apples, bananas and "cuties" (those are the little tangerines they seel in webbed bags).
23 The coffee, btw, cost a nickel.
24 I wasn't going to go around giving out free stuffs.
25 I also read my own poetry and was even coaxed into singing and playing guitar, which I had anticipated and delivered right on cue.
26 I played Simon and Garfunkel's America, as well as Scarborough Fair. I had run off the words and had them follow the Canticle, which is chilling if you've ever read those words and done that.
27 Overall it was a delightful week, one of the best ever!
28 I'm looking forward to this next week, in all honesty.
29 I hope you're all doing well.
30 More to follow.
31 Good times, good updates.
32 Peace.
~H
Recent Comments