Stop telling God how big your storm is, and start telling your storm how BIG your God is, and then watch and see what happens to the storm. Unknown

SD and I are off tomorrow to sleep at the Zoo. We are having a zoo snooze with the church. We get a special encounter with the nocturnal animals at the zoo!

My parents sold their house today after only 60 days on the market at exactly their asking price. I know they are excited. It is something we have all been praying about.

HH got the green light today on the background check, drug test, and poly from the FBI. If you are on the list get ready the FBI is coming to your house to ask questions about HH.

Had 3 classes start today. I guess rather than fooling around on the computer...and the blog...I should get busy.
Ha!

“Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.” Saint Augustine

Where has IPG been?

I had to take a certification exam to teach one of my courses this term. I took a crash test in it, and passed. I needed 680 to pass...and I scored a big fat 680. Ha!

SD and I have been doing whatever we wanted on a daily basis. If we didn't want to do something...we haven't done it. Unfortunately that doesn't include work. Which is still demanding my attention like a Chinese gong. However I have been moderately off for the last few weeks enabling me to really cut loose and enjoy myself. I feel like I am getting to know myself all over again. I used to be a really nice person until I became such a stress nazi.

I have made zero amount of progress on my dissertation. It is comic how little I have gotten done. I am supposed to be working on it this summer. :( I hope I am more motivated in July than I was in June.

SD has been here one full month today. The time is going by too fast. I don't ever want her to leave. :(

I gotta get to bed. SD and I have a busy week ahead of us. We are spending the night at the zoo on Tuesday then we are headed for the coast. Nearly two weeks of fun in the sun for us. WHOO Hoo! :)

A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. Herm Albright

Sometimes my students seem to be trying to make me lose my hair. But I know they are worried about their grades as worried as I am about mine! So I remind myself that they work hard, and even if they didn't work hard they think they work hard! :)

I have been having too much fun to write. A serendipitous set of circumstances has left me practically on VACATION this week. It is NICE! I have been enjoying myself, and spending quality time with SD.

Today was HH birthday! Happy Birthday darling man. I love you more today than I have ever loved you. You better not ever let anything happen to yourself. I couldn't live with out you.

In our leisure we reveal what kind of people we are. Ovid

Although I have quite a bit of work to do today...I still made time for fun.

I took SD horseback riding for a few hours. We had a lot of fun, but I didn't use a high enough SPF for my arms and shoulders. I compounded this mistake by going swimming at our local swim club for a few hours. Hubby and I decided to join this year, golf, tennis, and the pool. We had a fantastic time! SD got to play with her friends.

SD didn't do so hot on the horses today. She got really frustrated, and her fear turned the normally good natured horse into a stubborn mule that just wanted to stand at the barn. ;) She will get better though I intend to give her some more lessons this summer.

My dissertation is not going so well. I am enjoying my summer and not worrying about my paper near as much as I need to do! I will be spending several hours paying for my laissez fair attitude this weekend. I guess it is better to be penalized for having such a great time! :D

IPG

Slip and Slide Fun with SD's Friends

SD getting the slip and slide ready.

SD's friend on the slide

Backward sliding for SD.

There she goes!

SD and her Sister Shug

SD's Welcome Party

Sd's Shiner

I think I wrote about this! In a previous post. But here it is in...all its bruised glory!

Awesome Storm

This storm outside our house was AMAZING. I snapped a few pics while it was happening.

Handsome Hubbby and the Mighty Mississippi

Here is another NOLA pic.

Here is our Jeep Project! This Wrangler is going to look brand new!

I personally like the primer color.

Thanks for helping George! We couldn't have done it with out you.

Notice the gorgeous Auburn Orange!
I am so happy it is DONE!

HH and I in NOLA

I don't know why it looks so red here. Just funny camera thing. My face is hilarious here!

His face cracks me up! Like he has some big secret!

I love our faces in these pics.

To be good is to be lonely. Mark Twain

Now I sit me down to write
Hoping words will come with out a fight.
If I fall asleep before I finish.
Find me a Red Bull and replenish.

Working on my dissertation tonight. Hopefully I am going to make some progress. I am trying to write one usable page per day. If my proposal has to be 100 pages then in just 3 short months I will be ready to propose. One usable page per day takes me around 2 hours. I could probably bump up to 2 usable pages per day and 4 hours, but at this point I am not willing to cut into SD's time. When she leaves in August, I will be full speed ahead, and maybe putting in 6 hours per day. When I say usable page, I mean a page that is properly cited with all relevant literature, grammar and spelling free. So that is why it takes up to 2 hours per day. Because I am not just slopping it down on a page. :)

Work has eased up for me. Although I spent this past weekend SLAMMED. I will be semi off until mid July. By semi off I mean all my work is only taking me 5-6 hours per day rather than 15.

Ok off to bed. I had to move my gym schedule around for SD. I don't want to be hanging out at the gym when she is awake so I am getting up every morning at 5:45 and working out from 6-7 so that I can get home when her dad gets up for work. This way I work out, and she isn't home alone. Ah the things we do for our kids!

I need ideas for 3 year anniversary for hubby. This year is the leather year. Any suggestions I am happy to hear them. He wants a new recliner. But...I want something different.

You know you shouldn't work here when....

For those hunting for jobs...here is where you don't want to stay working.


You have 2 live none required for students chats TALKING to students. If students don't show you still have to talk for an hour.

You have to have one office hour per week. You have to have 2 faculty meetings per term (2 per five weeks). Grades must be turned in with comments on individual assignments up to 35 students per class with in 72 hours. Regular announcement, discussion board postings, and email rules apply.

Here is where I had moral objections. If a student turned in 100 percent of their work on the last day of class I had to grade it. I could only take off up to 20 % for tardiness. So you have 5 weeks 3 assignments per week and every term I had 5 or 6 students turn in 100 percent of the course on the last day, and I had 72 hours to grade it.

The student is always right at this institution. It is very shoot the faculty first ask questions later. Also very little is done about plagiarism. I had students I would turn in for plagiarism charges 3 or 4 times in my course and it wouldn't hold up. These are students that turned in an assignment with someone else's name on it. On "accident", and there was not enough "proof" to give them an F. Don't you type other people's names on your assignments all the time? ;)

There is no chain of command and students can contact, their advisor, your boss or the company president if they don't like their grade.

The discussion board requires students to respond to at least 2 students positively and at least one student "constructively." Which they all interpreted to mean flame thy neighbor.

You are not allowed to give an F on an assignment as long as it is submitted. The lowest grade you could give is a D. Finally you were required to do 3 or so in services a year that were NOT paid and took anywhere from 20-30 hours to complete sometimes.

I just couldn't do it anymore. I had to let that school go.

2,000 per class for a 5 week class and you go 3 classes per term
I still didn't care!

Why you shouldn't trust Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wedding_anniversary
SD and I updated 16th and 17th in the table to read Super Mario and Harvest Moon.
I wanted to show her why you should not use Wikipedia as a source.

I am sure it will be taken off!
So check it while you can! :)