Eleven more days to go. In about four and a half hours, it’ll be ten more days. Right this instant, at four in the morning, we have six more 102 class meetings and five more 101 meetings. So that’s two … Continue reading
Hmmmm…. I see I counted all four regular class-meeting days of the final exam week as “days to go,” even though each class meets only once during those days. Thus one could argue that we really have two fewer “days … Continue reading
Twenty-eight days to go. Weird, difficult day. When I said I hate the noon TTh class more than I hate the 7:30 a.m. MW class, I wasn’t kidding. By ten or eleven in the morning, I’m usually on a roll. … Continue reading
Eleven Weeks
101 Centavos has published one of the best round-ups in the history of PF blogging, my own rant aside. Among the links to various new-to-me sites and well-written posts, he included my lengthy complaint about the amount of unpaid work … Continue reading
Thirteen weeks left, plus the MickeyMouse final exam I’m required to show up for, which comes to a total of 14 weeks to the end of the semester. That would be 56 more traipses to the campus, 168 more hours … Continue reading
Should I quit teaching one of my classes? Some of my classes? All of my classes? And…can I get away with it? Those are the questions that present themselves. The Small Business Administration partners with a large Southwestern utility company … Continue reading
Recently I was going over the current state of my perennially headachey finances and realized that on average I’m running about $500 a month in the red. To make ends meet, that’s what I have to pull out of my … Continue reading
Tonight was the first meeting of the real estate course I signed up for at Heavenly Gardens CC. Actually, for most of the classmates it was the 11th meeting: the two five-week sessions of Real Estate 179 and 180, required … Continue reading
For part-time contractors, “adjunct” defines irregular pay. If you’re working on a semester basis, you’re likely being paid only eight out of every twelve months. During the winter break and the three summer months, you go hungry unless you manage … Continue reading
