SI La Vi Spring Break

Thanks, Denver, for arranging the, erm, bowling event for last Tuesday. Having arrived a little after six and discovering that only the, um, three of us had made it, we decided to head over to BW3 for appetizers and drinks. After some BBQ nachos, we thought The Watchmen sounded interesting enough--and it just happened to be bargain Tuesday! So, after Denver and I pulled Jessica away from the lanes, we headed over to Danberry's and watched what Jessica would later dub as "soft . . ." (rhymes with corn). The Watchmen?
What do you think?

So, yeah, bowling was a bust. What about an occasional movie night?

Spring Break!

Oh, thank goodness for Spring Break.

Have any of you ever experienced these phases in new terms?:

1. All right! A new quarter/semester! I'm going to kick butt!
2. I'll do the paper later.
3. Ugh. It's only week 3?!
4. Let me DIE.
5. *walks around in zombie-like stupor for an indeterminable span of time--could be days, could be months--for time no longer has meaning*
6. Okay... I think I've found my groove.

This year has also been my first experience with semesters. A strange beast. As my OU-C classes begin a new quarter next week, my KSU classes... are still on-going. Thankfully some of them end next week due to being accelerated 10-week courses, but my Genealogy class continues on into the distance, ending somewhere beyond where the sky meets the horizon and where the tumbleweed fails to tumble.

By the smiling of the gods upon me and the aligning of the planets, spring break for OUC and KSU fall... ON THE SAME WEEK! OH EM GEE!! Break from both schools at once!!! But then realization dawns that I have a final exam and a 15-page paper due next week, so that sort of sucks the "break" out of "Spring Break."

At least I have managed my taxes, though. Usually I have them done by February, but this year the fog lay heavily upon my cognitive abilities. I would come home from class in Columbus, sitting down at last at 11:00 p.m., looking at my tax forms, and invariably this would happen:

"Okay... enter the amount from box one on line one. *deer in headlights* What's a box? What's a line? OMG! What's "one"?!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRGGGGHHH!!"

So yeah, I postponed doing them until my first day of Spring Break. (And let this be a reminder to all of you to get your taxes done!) And 1040EZs are GREAT! I love being poor, single, and child-free! Well, at least single and child-free. I'm not such a fan of being poor.

Have a great spring break, all. Sorry I couldn't make it for bowling. I was in physical pain all day :(

Tutor Bowling night

We are getting together on Tuesday evening, the 24th of March, at 6pm at Shawnee Lanes for some bowling. Come get rid of that stress that you built up over Winter quarter by knocking over a pin or ten.

Shoe rental is $2.00
Each Game per person is $3.25

I am working on getting a group discount. I'll update one way or the other.

Student sucess

Last day of the quarter. A student brings a final revision. In two sessions the paper went from a 65% at best to a 95%. Hmmmm I suppose some people do listen to us.

Writing to Learn

How can we best help student writers sort through the writing they do have to help them find out what they really want to say?

How can we help writers shape their "jumbled messes" [their own words and sometimes ours! :-)] into coherent work ready for readers?

Often, I find the juiciest, most meaningful writing in the very last paragraph of a writer's paper . . . I wonder if she could have gotten there without writing all of that "other junk" first?