So last night during the exam we were giving, Kent says to me... so just to make sure that we keep up with the schedule, why don't you lecture on cell membranes on Thursday during the lab time and then we'll finish it up on Tuesday. Now, the entire lecture was supposed to be on Tuesday of next week, so of course I hadn't even looked at it yet since I figured I'd do that later this week or on Sunday night. So yeah... THAT was a bit of a shock. So my idea of finally getting to sleep in today got totally thrown out the window and I was here at 6:45 again. I know I shouldn't complain because I have gotten a lot of work done in that time and I got the lecture prepared... so it's all good. It just sucks. You all know how much I like to plan and like to know well ahead of time what I need to do. So you can figure out how much this drives me nuts.
In other news... Mark didn't get off of work until after 9 last night... so in 2 days, he's already pulled over 24 hours. Awesome. We're just praying for today... but neither of us wants to say something for fear of another late night. I didn't even see him yesterday. I was asleep by the time he got home and then he slept in today to try to catch up a bit and I was up early. So yeah... that was fun. :P
In other "happy" news... Mark just got a call from his dad. IBM is apparently cutting jobs... Mark's dad works at IBM. Need I say more? So yeah, we're praying that everything is all right there. But I guess he was basically told that he needs to find a new place for himself within the company or he won't be in the company anymore. Ugh. So it's been a great week for us, overall. So much for getting such a good start to it this weekend!!!
Otherwise, not too much to report. I'm playing with flies for my Principles (non-majors) class. I figure that they can get as much out of it as the Genetics students (and the boys will like looking at bugs). The only difference is that I'm doing the experiment for them rather than them doing it. But I'm going to make them write up the data when it's all done. I just laugh because I started today and by the end of the day, I'm going to have my crosses done. Yet the Genetics students have been trying to do their crosses for 3 weeks and still haven't finished. They are seriously so disorganized. Even though I told them to find tubes of flies with TONS of pupa in them ready to hatch at any moment, what do they pick?? The ones with NOTHING in it!! So of course they just keep waiting for flies to appear. I, on the other hand, just picked a tube filled with ready-to-hatch flies and after a couple hours I already had almost 10 flying around in the tubes. I figure by the end of the day when I leave, I'll have more than enough to set up my experiments. :) Yippee! As if this was difficult.
Oky doky pokies... I'm off for now... I hope you are doing well...
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