I wonder how many times I can post about my return to blogging? I seem to have an awful lot of these posts or at least more than I think I should. Alas, I have been busy grading final assignments and exams. Grades were handed in a few days ago, so I’m back…really. I’ve already established my love of lists, so here comes another:
1) My students. Wow. Some of them just rocked their final exams and did really great. I was so proud of them, and, best of all, I got emails from a few saying how proud they were of themselves.
2) Grading for a week straight does strange things to one’s mind. I’m just regaining my ability to have coherent conversations and not act like a complete weirdo in public situations. The last time I worked at the library, I saw a student and called her name to say hi. She turned around, and I yelped. I think I scared her. I cannot explain this behaviour beyond grading makes me loopy. I had also developed this *fun* habit of thinking things and then saying the opposite, only to have to backtrack and explain to my confused friends that no…in fact I did not mean to say that. Oops.
3) Speaking of friends…oh Facebook. I’d like to thank the kind developers behind the new features to FB. How did you know that I needed help finding friends? I refuse to add “people I may know.” In fact, I spent a good few minutes trying to delete all of the people they kept suggesting (nothing personal…I just hate the feature), and more and more people kept appearing. I won’t deactivate my account(s) because I still love the social networking aspect of FB, but I refuse to participate in the creepiness. I also don’t know how I feel about the chat feature. What makes FB fun for me is that it’s not just another IM platform. Now, it just feels like there’s too much going on. Does anyone know why there’s a new notification indicator beside the chat feature? It makes no sense…
4) M & M have joined Twitter. I don’t know if people really want and/or need to know what I’m doing at all times. I cannot resist new technology, so I’ll probably cave, but I cannot say how much I’ll actually use it.
5) J’aime Ultimate Frisbee! Need I say more?
6) The 1st 10k race is next weekend. I’m getting a bit nervous. I’d like to run most if not all of it. We shall see how the knees hold up: Advil, ice, Advil, ice, Advil….you get the point.
7) Time to go catch up on all of the stuff that I put off whilst grading.
