Sunday, June 12, 2011

Sumer time, sumer time, sum sum sumer time.....

You can sing the rest if you would like to.

Tomorrow is the start of week 11 of our 12 week spring quarter. That means I am almost finished with this quarter. In anticipation of the three week break and having a much lighter course load next quarter, I decided to pick up a part time job. Yeah, teaching is technically a part time gig, which means now I have two part time jobs. I started this past week as a line cook. It has been pretty fun so far. My brother has been training me in. After a 10 hours of "training" I was pretty much on my own yesterday. I think I did ok. I only messed up a few salads. My station is salads and deep fried things. I do not deep fry the salads. I make a pretty mean fish 'n chips though. I like cooking, and the prep work doesn't bother me. I am a little rusty with restaurant cooking as my experience in a restaurant is 15 years ago, but I think I am picking it up pretty quickly.

As I mentioned, next quarter I have a much lighter course load, teach just two classes. Hematology and Parasitology. Both of these are classes that I really like. Bugs and blood. Fun stuff! For comparison, this quarter I teach 3 classes plus I am the surgery assistant technician, so technically 4 classes, plus I am taking 2 classes. Next quarter, teaching two & taking two.

The two classes I am taking this quarter are 300 and 400 level businesses classes. Next quarter I am taking "Intro to humanities" and a class called "Global Citizenship." It isn't at all what it sounds. It used to be called student success. It is a class that first quarter students take to become acclimated to college life and do a service learning project (community service that we "reflect on" in order to learn) It is a two credit 100 level class. The humanities class is also a 100 level class.

Nick has graduated from school and taking (and I am sure passed) the board. He should find out in a week or two. He starts his residency on June 27. In the meantime I am keeping him quite busy with to do lists.

And since I wouldn't be a true Minnesotan if I didn't comment on the weather: Really, it went from cool to 100+ then dropped 40 degrees in 2 days. Wow!! I dont really like 103, but I kinda like it in the upper 70s, maybe even 80s. BTW, the last time it hit triple digits in MN: July 15, 2006. Yup, just so happened I got married that day.

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