Quick Update

Amazingly, it's Wednesday again already. Time sure flies by! Today is Mark's birthday, so at least we have a dinner out to look forward to!

Other than that, I have made some progress in choosing paper topics. I did meet with the CR professor yesterday, and after that, spent a couple of hours writing out ideas and research questions. Now I feel like I have some interesting possibilities to choose from. I've also made progress on the short assignment comparing Bible translations, and that's pretty interesting, too.

Today, my 102 students are turning in their first essay. I'm very interested to see how they turn out and also try my new rubric. I hope I like it and that it helps my grading to go faster. We're meeting at CESL today for an "exchange" (students from my class and one of their classes just talk in pairs or small groups for the duration of the class). This activity went really well last semester; I'm just hoping everyone will find the right place, since they also have to turn in their essays.

So, I'm getting ready for a busy end of the week and weekend: grading papers, doing preliminary research for my own projects, and getting through a lot of reading. Let's hope I can get it all done! The nice thing is that since I'm only teaching one class, my grading will be done in essentially half the time it took last semester. I'll teach two classes all year next year, so I need to really enjoy this reduced grading load while I can!