The evil sickness has almost left me. I woke up feeling a wee bit congested, and still coughing up some yuck first thing in the morning, but after some decongestant and heading back to bed for a little while, I feel almost completely normal again. Yay!
Classes started yesterday, and they went pretty well. I had to take two guys aside and tell them they weren’t supposed to be in my class (regular Writing 100), but rather they were supposed to be in a developmental Writing 100 section. I emailed both of them last week to inform them of this fact and let them know that they should see their advisors about making the change. They either didn’t read the email or ignored it. 😉
One of my classes is very small…I only had 12 students registered, and only 9 were there yesterday. Oh, it would be so lovely if it stayed that small. The other class has 15 students registered.
Classes at the other school start next week. I’m teaching their version of developmental writing again, which I actually missed last semester. The nice thing about that class is that it’s much smaller and I can devote a lot more personal attention to each student. Also, most of them work really, really hard, because they really, really want to pass. I’ll also have an evening class, and those are usually pleasant. I haven’t been able to log in to the system to see how many students are registered for those. The English 101 classes start out larger than I like (it tops out at 23, but they usually stuff a couple of extra ones in), but usually dwindle down to somewhere around 15 throughout the course of the semester. I still have to update my syllabi for those classes, but that shouldn’t take me long. I’ll be incorporating some of the elements from my syllabus at the other college.
I also got a new battery put in my car. Yay for me.
I probably should get to some of this today. The only other thing I have to do is go to a doctor’s appointment this afternoon. (just a regular checkup) Lucky me!
Oh, and of course I’ll be taking a project 365 photo and posting it. 🙂