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[cornerofmadness]

Ugh you know, this department needs me badly. I'm not the type to just sit around when things aren't working right. LIke now when another prof (who hasn't taught Zoo in years but does teach the accompanying botany course) points out that she isn't fond of the fact we're using a general biology book for this zoology class. Well, I agree. This is wrong. It's even more wrong that over half the labs are the same ones for gen. bio. I think once the course starts and before its taught again in the fall. This other prof and I need to get together, find a book that works for this class and for hers (zoology and invertebrates often have the same lab book) and have it ready for the new prof coming in this fall. As it stands now, this class is a shambles and I'm ashamed of it.

I spent all day looking at various lab books I own and this other prof owns (knowing what the prof who has been teaching this course has to offer which is nada) trying to make up a lab course from scratch. Spent a lot of time on line for the same reasons, trying to pull together enough hand outs to make this class stand out a little. Now to find out if i can borrow litmus paper from chem lab, find fossils, a pond and oh, a hiking trail near the school. I've done all i can class wise with a good gen bio book (but a lousy zoo book)

I wasted a perfectly lovely cool day doing all of this. I had to take a few writing breaks for my sanity's sake.

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[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

Yay for writing breaks...oh, wait, what's going to be sitting in my inbox?

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

nothing this time. It all went to Nano

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

WHEE! *laugh*

[rahirah]

I don't suppose you can charge the school for time spent...

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

nope