School Update

I'm done! Summer semester is basically over.... have one last class for the guys I teach, and marking to do for that... but other than that, I'm done, and have some time off! Got 87% in KidLit, 89% in Environmental Science, and no idea re: the Walcott Special Topics course - but I think I'll do ok in that one too.

I need time off. I really, really, really need a break. Honest.

Of course, me being me, it won't be a complete break  - I still have an independant study Shakespeare course to get through.... or two - haven't ordered the next one yet.  And I am planning to get the rest of my YA novel done, and hopefully also send out some short stories and so on.

And ideally, I will get some of the reading & research done for my Honours Essay ... it doesn't really start until September, but getting a jump on it would be good.

Counting the 2 Shakespeare courses, I already have 9 of the credits I need for my fourth year.

The one required course and the Honours Essay give me another 6 each. ....so that is 21.

So all I need now is another 9, which is 3 half courses.

I haven't decided what to take for those 3 courses, but if possible, going to try to stick 'em in the first half of the year rather than the second term, since I haven't been offered much for teaching in the Fall term - should have at least 3 to teach starting in January 08 .... 4 if I'm lucky.

There are problems, however..... everyone that knows anything  - ALL of the Academic Advisors, in other words - are OFF until the end of August. They have people covering for them - but those people are not the usualy people in the job and I strain their brains because I never do anything the normal way.

Can't get a straight answer about Letters of Permission to take those 3 courses at the Barrie Campus - which I NEED in order to be allowed to register - and also can't get an answer about whether I can take another course in Sudbury and have it count ..... the Honours Essay is normally used to cover off the Seminar course requirement - but there's a seminar course that would work for me ... but won't take it unless it is going to count.

So I'm frustrated as heck with that whole thing... hopefully will get it sorted out by the time I have to register for the Barrie courses.

The other issue is that I thought I would take 2 courses that are both offered on Wednesday ... not because I am particularly interested in those 2 courses but because it's a long drive to school and I'd rather limit the number of times I have to do it.

Wednesday is the ONLY day that there are 2 courses that I don't have that don't overlap.

So guess what day more than half of the courses I've been offered to teach for the Fall semester fall on? Of course! Wednesday!

I can't afford to say no to all those hours - but on the other hand, they rarely get enough students to run, so what difference does it make really?

But at least if I'm available I have the HOPE of making some $$. But if I don't take the Wednesday courses, then I DO have to take the Tuesday and Thursday ones (the one course I did want to take is only offered on Monday - which is the day I'm in Sudbury). 

So then if the Wednesday courses don't run, I'm stuck driving to Barrie WAY more often - and the Tuesday 8 a.m. sounds like a bad idea anyway, given that I won't be able to leave Sudbury until 9 p.m. Monday nights and it's a 2 - 3 hours drive in decent weather.

Decisions, decisions.

I think my first step shall be to email the P/T Studies co-ordinator and see if there's any chance the Wednesday one day courses could be moved to Thursdays. Can't hurt to ask right?

Kids just called. From Sudbury, of all places :)

And they are not fighting. Also not sitting together on the bus; think that most likely has something to do with it! LOL