Checking In

Well, mid-semester is upon us and I'm checking in on how everyone's doing. Remember to keep your blogs up-to-date, including assigned topics. The last few weeks have been free topics, but for my ENC 1102 - you guys have an assigned one this week. You have to "review" one of the author presentations that you enjoyed or in which you learned something new and interesting.

I have left you all in good hands next week while I'm away at the writer's conference next week. I'm really excited about it because 1) I have a manuscript consultation (my first!) and 2) I get to improve on my writing and learn new things that I can bring to you guys. :) I'm also looking forward to the opportunity to catch up on grading!

Check your Blackboard accounts as I will be communicating via Blackboard!

In Search of Healthy Horizons

Okay, so maybe that title is a bit melodramatic, but I find it funny how the age-old saying "when it rains, it pours" just rings true sometimes. After having that small sinus/ear/throat infection, my son came down with a pretty nasty case of Hand-Foot-Mouth disease. That was not the best way of spending a week, but I breathed a sigh of relief when he finally began eating well and the rash on his face (his entire chin/mouth area had scabbed from the rash/sores), hands, and feet cleared up. Well, just when everything seems to be going back to normal - he went back to school yesterday and "pushed" me out of the door - I go and break my little toe! I had never broken a bone in my life - until now, that is. It's a small fracture, nothing big, and it could have been worse. So far it seems as if this minor fracture won't set me back much, and I'm very thankful for that. I just find it funny how everything piles up so close together. Oh well.

Oh yea, and while I was at the Urgent Care center, waiting (and waiting...and waiting), cases of flu kept being confirmed (regular flu, not H1N1, but from what the nurse was telling me, they're not exactly testing for H1N1 there anyway). Fun. As soon as I got home, I drank some Airborne and took more vitamin C - just in case. The LAST thing I need is to come down with the flu!

Other than that, the semester is well underway. We're swiftly approaching the mid-way mark, and registration for the winter 2010 term should begin soon (I believe it's Nov 3). I hope everyone's settling nicely and no one is getting overwhelmed with midterms approaching.