Zip, Bam, boom!

First week of classes, Cindra's out of town at a conference so single parenting three, dogsitting one, and getting the car towed that blew a radiator the other day. The first time I looked up at the clock tonight it was ten o'clock. My first class is at 8AM and there are three kids to get sorted out somehow before that. Skye Bonnie will get dropped off at daycare at 7:30, the other two, whose (is that a word, looks funny) schools start at 9:00 will be dropped off at a coffee shop that is next door to their schools (fortunately the middle school and high school are a block apart) with some cash and I will hopefully meet my bright eyed and bushy tailed students at 8 AM across campus from the parking lot. We all have days like this, so not trying for sympathy here, just blogging. I guess that's what this thing is for. A not-so-personal diary.

On a more interesting or noteworthy note (somewhat redundant, no time for picky editing here) I have a rather unique situation for my teaching career: I have the exact same group of students for all my classes this term and possibly for the entire year. To Quilldancer this may not seem like such a novel thing, but this is college. How could this be? Well I teach in a small Graphic Design program at a community college and last year I was sort of promoted (I don't get any more pay just more responsibility) to take the students that get accepted into the second year of the program (it's a two year GD program and you have to submit a portfolio at the end of the first year to be accepted into the second year due to the fact that there are only so many positions available) through the production part of the program. There are essentially two aspects to Graphic design: design theory and production. Previously I was the boot camp guy, filling in for upper division here and there but mostly taking in the freshman, running them randomly en masse through art 101, basic design 115, drawing 131, etc. which feeds into sculpture, multi-media, studio art, graphic design, etc. But, this year I get to take the second year Graphic Design students through all of the 200 level classes and through to the graduation ceremony at the end of the year. I also teach at a four year University and I've always thought that it was kind of sad that I might have a student for two or three classes in four years, just enough to kind of get to know them and then they disappear into the world. But a full year of seeing these guys through and going through commencement is going to be a different thing altogether. So, it's an exciting year.

Well that's it from this end. Gotta tend to getting kids into bed. After that I'll cruise my friends blogs, drop in to say hi before crashing out into nervous sleep.

Peace,

Just Tom