Stuck without a captain or a chart

I should be commenting on papers right now, but here I am. Call it love for my readers, or call me a procrastinator.

Ernesto is busy dumping himself all over the Carolinas. It's pretty nasty out there today, but at least it's cooler. Raleigh tends to flood easily, so traversing the roads and sidewalks is quite a feat. But I've been inside since 9am and haven't ventured out there yet, thanks to the free pizza available in the department.

Not much is new. I've been busy teaching my classes. I have one 50-minute section and two 100-minute sections. I always run out of time in the 50-minute section and always have too much time in the 100-minute sections. On Tuesday I had to make up an in-class writing assignment on my feet, because I had run out of material with 40 minutes still left in class. I'm still trying to find that happy medium. I have a feeling that my syllabi are going to change a lot next semester.

I like my students for the most part. I have a couple that are already trying to take advantage of me, but I suppose that's normal. I see my 50-minute section much more often than the others (4 days a week) so I feel like I know them so much better. I almost have all of their names down. I'm rather bored by the material that I'm teaching though and am having a hard time expecting them to be enthusiastic. At some point in my career I hope to have the credentials to teach literature rather than composition. I guess I'll have to get that PhD after all. :-P But for now I'm trying to make them believe that I actually know what I'm talking about when I try to analyze the rhetorical elements of a scientific report.

In other news, I've been debilitatingly tired. I'm really starting to worry. I sleep 8hrs and wake up as exhausted, as I was when I went to bed. Every time I open my mouth, I feel like I'm going to yawn. Some have suggested that it's due to all of the adjustments I've been making, or the "D" word. But I don't know. I feel relatively settled and relatively "happy." I worry that I might have mono or something. My insurance kicks in soon, so I'll have to get checked out. I haven’t had insurance for a year, so the list of things I need to get checked out is getting rather long. I think I'm going to meet my deductible quickly. Oy.

No news on the man front, other than the fact that I keep getting emails from horny little 18yr olds on Myspace. I got an email from one today whose profile says, "Screw Cary, I'm moving to Kansas City." Good for him. He and Sax can be friends - I think he has a space open. Haha. Sorry, I couldn't help myself.

Back to work.