Close call

[cornerofmadness]

Damn near woke up dead this morning. I woke the first time around 6 Am and since I work nights there was no need to get up that early. I was feeling queasy, shaky and almost drunk. As I stumbled to the bathroom I thought maybe I should check my blood sugar but decided nah, I KNOW I've been exposed to whooping cough and the flu I'm just getting sick. It was worse two hours later when I did actually decide to get up. My blood sugar was 35. I'm not sure how I didn't just slip into a coma. Feeling a little better for the sugar I just ate. Now to shove in some protein...

And here's last night's update that didn't get put on because first LJ was acting like an ass then my dial up crapped out entirely and said there was no dial tone (it lied)

Target Practice. That's what I'd like to use a few of my students for. I have student assistants now taking the 80 pages of student written questions and removing the duplicates and the badly written questions to make it easier on them (and I just tried to use this thing as a study guide and it's a bitch. I hate it) so it's now about 30 pages long and they're STILL bitching. How does the assistant know what we're studying? My questions aren't here, we never talked about this...yadda yadda. My response the student was an A student in this class, she has our objections and if you don't like it we can go back to 80 pages. The student assistant blew her top on them. Saying 'hey this is a TON of work for me and if you don't like it I just won't do it).

THEN we started bitching at me because I skipped something on the outline. After 6 weeks of this SAME bitch I lost it in class...well, calmly lost it. I think the drop in my tone and the glacial winds that blew in when I told them the outline was there so they could learn to SPELL words and that I TELL them when I move of it should be adequate. If they DONT like it I'll forego the outline and it's every man for himself (or herself in this case).

The dean met me in the hall to give me a pep talk and told me to lay down the law. I've been too easy on them it seems. THIS is your assignment so do the work (i.e. the dean's tired of hearing my students whine to her) You know pissing off the professor the day she's making up YOUR test is just another measure of how dumb you are.

Comments

[esmerelda-t.livejournal.com]

Remember what Machivelli said, better to have everyone fear you than love you, but at least the Dean's on your side.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

ever so true. They fear Karl (my boss) they shall learn to fear me.

[esmerelda-t.livejournal.com]

they shall learn to fear me.

*tries not to giggle* you arent saying that from your secret lair on a small island in the south pacific by any chance? ;)

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

more like my secret fortress in the evil forest.

[lynnluvsjamey.livejournal.com]

woah sounds like your having the best week ever!

Anyways, I hope you feel better soon *sends you all those goodie things that you like* and take care of yourself.

You have dialup too?..It does have a tendency to lie.

hehe. Lay down the law hun.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

my week can only get better. If it gets worse I'm not sure I'll survive.

I've been hesitant to lay down the law because I'm new. Now, they're going to get thebitch

[lynnluvsjamey.livejournal.com]

yes thebitch!!! yes!!!!!!!

I'd love to be there for that! you so have to tell me what happens!!!! well actually you don't have to, but telling would be nice!

Aww I hope it gets better for ya hun.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

thanks and we'll see what happens since I have to teach both sections of class next week. My boss is gone and I'm the one doing the testing and the teaching

[lynnluvsjamey.livejournal.com]

oh my, good luck with it all. :)

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

thanks

[catlove.livejournal.com]

I have low blood presure too and it sucks. You always have to have protein at hand and sweet beverages or salty stuff (like chips). I've fainted once in the bathroom. It wasn't pretty. :(

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

Yep and luckily I have this huge tub of my caramel (I mean how else am I expected to eat apples?) so I'm okay now.

[aaronlisa.livejournal.com]

Man you need to get out of there. Ever since you've been there, it seems like you're just having one really long, neverending bad week.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

This is my USUAL luck. Seriously. Sometimes it's scary to be me.

[aaronlisa.livejournal.com]

So you're one of those people that if it wasn't for bad luck, you'd have no luck?

That's bad. Anyhow make sure the test is really hard for the class today.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

well their test isn't until next week and I'm in no mood to go easy.

And yes Bad Luck is my middle name

[masqthephlsphr.livejournal.com]

I offer my sympathies as a(n ex) teacher. Gawd. You go, girl.

And I'm glad to hear you're doing OK. Are you diabetic?

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

Yeah I'm diabetic (thanks to being so overweight. Still desparate to lose and all the exercise in the world is doing very little sadly).

I'm definitely seeing the difference between community college students and traditional four years (granted you have whiners in both but I've never seen such sheer determination to do NOTHING and expecting an easy time

[masqthephlsphr.livejournal.com]

I taught community college and University. *Hated* CC teaching, but I always figured it was like being stuck permanently with only lower division general ed classes, and most of the attitude came from the fact that the students weren't majors and just wanted to "get through" the class as quickly and easily as possible.

I guess CC is more of a world unto its own, attracting a particular kind of student with a particular kind of attitude towards education.

Bleh, blech. Don't envy you in the least!

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

That's it exactly. The dean already expects me to move on to a university but since I'm not a researcher that might never happen...when I grew up CC had a rep for being where the...let's say less talented students ended up.

During my term in FL, the instructors tried to convince me that CC had changed and was so much more progressive. While that's true, CC still attracts the ones who messed up in HS, have 4 kids or the 40+ whose children have moved out and they now want a career. It's a frustrating mix

[masqthephlsphr.livejournal.com]

A mix of young slackers and highly motivated but clueless middle-aged people?

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

You got it.

[masqthephlsphr.livejournal.com]

Well, at least your boss realizes *exactly* the situation you're in and isn't going to jump to conclusions based on what your students say.

Community college. Jesus. Ewwww.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

That is the good thing (the other thing working for me is who else wants this dead end beginnger job in the middle of nowhere?)

[rahirah]

Eeek. Next time you wake up feeling yucky, check your blood sugar right away!

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

Well that would be the intelligent thing to do. I obviously spent all that time in medical school to do the dumbest thing possible (Most doctors do. We're horrid patients)