Momentary update....

It has been a little while since my last post. So here is an update on what's going on with me....

My spring break is coming up soon....thank god!! It is the last week of March. I don't get to travel anywhere since Drew's break will be the week before mine. So, my goal is to stick around the house and maybe do some home improvements. This presents a challenge for me though since I have absolutely zero decorating sense. I don't want to do anything drastic, just maybe start adding a little color to my walls. I am going to start with Drew's bedroom I think. This way, at least, if I completely screw it up he really won't give two shits since he is only 7, and a boy.

I am convinced that God knew that I would not be able to deal with a picky, pink-loving girl so he blessed me with a boy. Boys present their own challenges, though. For instance, I recently received a note from his teacher accompanied by a "pink slip". Drew thought it would be funny to flip the "bird" at his friend from across the classroom in the middle of a social studies lesson. Now, if I had been the teacher at that moment I would have incorporated that into the lesson somehow. I mean, it was social studies.....he was being social.

When I return to work from spring break I will only have about a month left of the spring semester. It is going to be a damn busy month though. I will be up to my ears in assignments, projects, and research papers to grade. The last 3 to 4 weeks of every semester is when you probably want to stay as far away from me as possible between Monday and Friday. It amazes me that I always have those students who have fucked off all semester come crawling in and begging for some way they can make-up work. Sure, there is that little tinge of reminiscent college student in me that kind of sympathizes with them. We have all been there at least once in our college career. Then the sleep-deprivation and the countless hours of reading god-awful grammar kicks in. I realize that it would be one less assignment that I would have to dredge through and try to make some kind of sense out of. So, I almost have to force myself to keep a straight face when I tell them that it ain't happenin'.

Final grades are to be turned in to the registrar on May 6, graduation is the evening of May 8. I have to drag out all of my graduation regalia to wear to the ceremony. Yeah, I have to wear the cap and gown and the long ass hood thingy that I wore when I graduated with my Master's degree. That god-awful cap that I have to bobby pin to my head....ugh!! It is actually rather amusing to see other faculty members in all of their "pomp and circumstance" attire. Some of the more egotistical one's have spent the extra money to have the "special" kind of caps and all of their other accessories. The cap, gown, and the hood are enough for me!!

I have already committed to teaching some in the summer. I am probably going to kick myself in the ass for it, but....at least it is some extra money. Who couldn't use that??