Hurricane Season in NJ...

The weekend is finally here! I did alright on the first day for each of my classes. The Student Success was the most difficult because I am not as comfortable with the content as I am with Political Science. The Dean of Academic Affairs (who created and runs the Student Success course) told me that my experience is typical of all first-time instructors - simply getting through the course is enough.

Tropical storm Hanna will hit New Jersey sometime Saturday afternoon. I had hoped to mow the lawn after returning from seminary inservice; however, 5-7 inches of rain really harshes on a completely manual mower's cutting ability. "Tropical storm" sounds ominous, doesn't it? One of my colleagues told me that the winds are expected to gust 45-50 mph - which is no worse than the nor-eastern storms we got last May. If that is the case then we probably have nothing to worry about.

Biking home to batten down the hatches,
Brad

Pleasure and Pain...

Classes started today at OCC (for me anyway!) In addition to my responsibilities as the Program Coordinator, serving as the executive secretary of the College Senate, serving on the Global Ed, Election and Foundations of Excellent Steering Committees, I am teaching 7 classes:

3 Federal Government classes
1 State & Local class
1 Intro to Poli Sci class
1 International Relations class
1 Student Success class

I have never taught Student Success before (it's the first-year college experience course) and all but the Federal Government classes are using new textbooks that I have never taught from. I am going to be really busy!

I do have it better than my younger son, though. All of my "pain" is self-inflicted and psychological in nature; he has "crashed" on his bike and/or scooter for four consecutive days (cutting open the same knee each time!)

Oh well! In spite of it all, I love my job and my son loves his bike and scooter.

There's a fine line,
Brad