Dedicated workers...

So for all of you who think I'm just full of it when I talk about how Mark and I are never able to get anything done during the week here is our schedule so far (and I KNEW I shouldn't have mentioned something about getting home early because I've totally gotten screwed this week!!) . We are both leaving the house at 6am (waking up at 5am) and getting to work around 7 (6:40 for me, 7:15 for Mark to get to Deerfield). Last night I had an early night and left around 7:30 and got home at 8. Mark got stuck at work late and didn't even get to leave until right before 8 and got home at 9. Yeah... so that sucked. We just both reheated some food, ate quickly, and went to bed. There certainly wasn't time to watch anything on tv, check e-mail, etc. Well, Mark figured that since he worked so late last night that he was free and clear for today and would leave at normal time at the latest... possibly even get out an hour early since he now has overtime that needs to get made up during the week (the clients don't pay for overtime, so if he works late one day then he can come in late or leave early at some other point during the week). Anyway... yeah... he just e-mailed me to inform me that it's going to be another late night... possibly as late or later than last night. And I'll probably be home by 6 tonight... ironic, I must say. So I'm getting off lucky tonight while he isn't. Depending on how I feel, I may just stay here and work on some more class prep stuff since it's not like I have to rush home to have dinner with Mark or anything. We'll see how I feel. Either way, it will get done either here or at home. But yeah... now you see why we never get stuff accomplished during the week. We are just too freaking tired. And this week we've both been pulling 12 hour days or more... so it's really taking its toll. Granted, I don't have to be here as early as I'm coming in, but I'm really determined to get ahead of my classes... therefore, I need to come in early to get it done. I don't like just being one class ahead of my students. And I'm 2 chapters away from having one class completely done. So yeah... needless to say, I'm working my butt off to get those last 2 chapters done. We'll see how it goes.

In other news... I'm waiting for Kent to get back from a meeting so that I can chat with him briefly. On the first day of one of my classes I just got this bad gut instinct about one of the male students. Basically, after class he came up to me and just started talking about nothing important or related to class. I was waiting for Kent to finish talking to another student about a question over the lecture material and I wasn't sure if it was okay for me to leave without him. So I told this student that he didn't have to stay... he was like... that's okay, I like to chat. And he just kept talking until Kent eventually finished and I walked out with him (Kent). Needless to say, because I was getting this weird vibe from the kid, I made SURE to randomly mention that I had a boyfriend. Because THAT was the type of vibe I was getting from the kid. Now fortunately, he's not in my section of the class, he's in Kent's (we are each "teaching" a section... but both sections are in the same classroom for lecture, but different lab rooms for lab). So thank God I don't have him in my lab and I'm not in charge of his grade, therefore. Well then last night I get an e-mail from him about some question on a lecture that I didn't even give - Kent taught that part. Well, first off, because he's in Kent's section, he's supposed to go to him with any question while my section comes to me (that way we don't have the issue of... well, she said this or he said this, etc.) So that was the first thing that was wrong... the second part was that since I didn't even teach that stuff, there was really no reason to come to me. So yeah... I know it seems ridiculous and stupid and maybe I'm blowing it out of proportion, but it is just throwing me off. And I've learned that my gut instincts tend to be correct. I talked to Kelly about it and she agreed that it could be something... of course, it could be nothing. But I need to cover my ass, thus the reason I want to talk to Kent about it. I also want him to be aware so that when this kid gets assigned an advisor, it's not me. Cause I do NOT want to be alone with this kid for any significant period of time. I just have a bad vibe. I keep thinking maybe I'm just being paranoid... and I probably would have blown it off if this had been my first teaching experience and I didn't know better. But I've now taught several classes and I've never had that feeling from a male student before... and I've gotten to know several of my male (and female) students and talk to them about their lives outside of school, future career plans, etc. and I've never had any uncomfortable feelings. But with this kid... it has been there from that first day he came up to me. So yeah... while it's quite possible that nothing would ever happen, I just want to make sure that I'm covering my ass. Because needless to say... if anything ever did happen... or a comment was made by a student about me in that way... yeah, my teaching career would basically be over. This is definitely the bad part about looking so young. (And I'm almost 10 years older than these students!!!)

In a completely unrelated subject... did it become late October without my knowing it?? What the hell is up with this weather?!?! It's freaking freezing in my office!! This weather sucks!! :P

All righty... I'm sure I have more to babble on about... but I'll save that for now. I hope that all is well...