99 Red Balloons Ain't Got Nothing On Me

While I was living at Heritage, Kristi would frequently call on me to retrieve coupons from the Sunday papers delivered to the Central Building. Yesterday, I told her that I could probably still get the paper there if she ever wanted it. She called me on my way home asking if I could grab one for her, so I stopped by. Becca was working the desk and she told me that the guy who opened just put them all in the recycling since usually no one comes for them. I went outside to find both newspaper recycling bins (the big blue ones) with tons of Sunday papers spilling out of them! I hastily moved them all to my car; they filled the back seat. I estimate that we had close to 35 Sunday newspapers, if not more. Talk about savings!

Job

As the deadlines for midterms and papers start drawing near, I'm finding myself super busy with my job. While it's great and I love it, it's a little stressful. I've got students not turning in papers, skipping class, and wanting extra study sessions. They turned in their first paper about a week and a half ago, so I got to grade for the first time. Even that is a little unnerving. I'm only grading them on grammatical and formatting stuff, but I'm always afraid that I'll grade them too harshly or go too easy on them. For the most part, they've all been fine, but a few have been really awful and it makes me feel terrible to have to give them bad grades. I'm just thankful I don't have to worry about grading them for content! On top of trying to finish up the grading, I've been put in charge of leading an in class study session for their upcoming first test. I'm pretty confident that I'll be able to do it, it's just so much to cover in only a 50 minute period! And to add more to the pile, I'm rewriting a chunk of the test and adding more questions to it. So in other words, YIKES! But, even with all of this to do, it's still a ton of fun and I love what we're studying.

Socks

Most of you know that most of my socks have holes in them. For months and months, and sometimes longer, I've just kept on wearing them. No more! On Saturday I did my laundry at Kristi's and recruited Allie to help me find all of my socks with holes and throw them away. Sadly, it was probably about half of my socks....