Some random stuff

Today has been a busy day. Had a wedding shower at work for my friend who's getting married Saturday. Rest of the afternoon was very busy. Looking forward to Saturday and our adult night out. Tristan is spending the night with Grandma and Grandpa that nite and he is very excited about that. He wanted them to pick him up today so I was just second best. Oh well.

We are getting ready for Tristan's party. Chance had our yards done last nite. It looks very nice. They built a stone walkway to the pool to help the kids from getting muddy. We got the new skimmer and the new filter but are still waiting on the ladder. Hopefully it will get here soon. I keep praying for good weather...our yard is mushy right now. We have not bought him one present yet. That part is a bit stressful. And I still need to look for a Star Wars cake. Haven't decided what kind I'm getting for Pat yet. Not sure what the food will be yet but a decision will be made this weekend.

I am a bit stressed over school. I am behind on some projects and our display goes up on Monday. I only have one decent picture right now and he wants us to have 2. I will be busy this weekend with the wedding and all. And then we may take Tristan to see Spiderman. I'll fit it in somewhere. Life just sort of hit me the past few weeks and my class has gone to the back burner. I've never let myself get this behind in class but I guess there's a first time for everything.

I got an email today about my teaching. Evidently they assign new adjunct faculty mentors to help them out. I got the Dean...she's very nice but it's scary having the head honcho watching my every move. Public speaking is not my forte and I'm a bit nervous. However, when I know my subject area... I can do pretty good. I just want to be sure to have some sort of fun personality for them and not sure I can pull that off. Well this email today informs me that the mentor will observe me in class and then meet with me afterwards to share the observations. Oh that so freaks me out and makes me extra nervous. I am trying to have a grown up attitude about it and tell myself this is a growing experience for me. I am such a freak. I can lead my coworkers, train them, speak to them as a group to teach them, speak to groups of students in the office area but I am scared of silly freshman students in a classroom setting. As you can tell by my blogs, I tend to ramble. I get miles away from my topics sometime. Well I do have a training session on the 23rd. So hopefully that will put my mind at ease. Although I am partly scared, part of me is so very excited about this opportunity. Oh and my presentation from last week got postponed. I was told informal but now it's turned a bit more formal. Luckily it is a co-presentation but again, public speaking. We are working with the advising area to be more cohesive. So I am sharing what we do. About 80% of our staff in both offices are new. Why is it I can share the same information in front of the same group but for some reason sitting makes it easier to talk and standing in front of them makes me nervous??? I so hate that about myself!

Well not sure I have much more to say right now. Did some reading tonite and yeah.. well.. um.. ok. Guess I'll go do some more. I was up late last nite and I'm a bit tired.

Hasta luego dudes!