Coffee Flavored Kisses

This is true.  I have been bad about blogging, and as usual it’s work’s fault.  I have been kept too busy.  I tried hybridizing my classes this semester.  This means using our online program in face-to-face classes.  It has been a mixed success.  I don’t think I will give up the process, but I will want to rethink it over Christmas.

The hybridizing was stressful, but so was the great schedule fiasco.  For a while there, I was scheduled to teach 8 classes, but we managed to work that down to six.  This has left a lot of unhappy campers since one of those eight was a daytime philosophy section which would have been full, if we could have found a time for it that didn’t conflict with the required Nursing classes.  I shall try again.

Then there was the NCTE convention in Philadelphia.  Okay, I have to say Philadelphia was cool, and I didn’t see nearly as much of it as I wish I could have.  I need to get my pictures off my phone and into my blog and my facebook.  I found the conference itself rather interesting, and have gained some new ideas, bought some new books (one is about a “new” way to teach grammar–I can use all the help there that I can get!) I now have a desire to read an author called Lorene Cary. She was the speaker at the college section luncheon (with delicious food!!!).  I found her intriguing and fascinating.  I went with two co-workers, and we had great fun the day before the conference, but lost each other once the conference chaos began.  However, the absolute best part of my conference experience wasn’t at the conference.  I was having dinner in the hotel bar, and seated next to me was this woman–another conference attendee.  Well, she turned out to be a young adult author, and we started talking writing, and before I new it three hours was gone.  I feel inspired to write, if I can find the time.  (I think one way that I shall try to find the time is to ask not to teach this summer session.)

I also have community stuff going on.  I am trying to get a writer’s group started; I am volunterring at the public library–I read the story for Christmas!  I am involved in our Big Read project.  All in all, I am one freaking busy camper.

And exhausted.

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