I made this snow day

It is so stinkin' cold out! Eek! -15F with wind gusts of 30mph. I had such a hard time sleeping last night and I was stressed about having to have my teaching evaluation on a day where a) half the students are absent due to the delay and b) not being personally motivated to drive 45m one way to teach an 80 minute class. The weather cleared up and had stopped snowing by morning, but the wind and subzero temperatures were not helping with the ice. School canceled morning classes, but mine were not til 11. The cut off point. Beh.

I knew I would be bitter if I went in, and we use Moodle anyway, so I decided to put the day's tasks online instead. Now I feel better about this week. I actually spent a lot (4 hours) playing around with the discussion and wiki formats on Moodle, and even played with the upload assignment aspect. I just haven't had time to mess around with it that much. So I feel better about that. And I actually think that having a written response will be better for my students because they aren't real big talkers in the class,and sometimes I step over the ones who do because I get excited and want to chime in. Anyway, I am looking forward to Thursday. I wish they had just canceled classes all day (it's still only 14 with 25mph winds!) but I feel justified in my decisions. If my teacher wants to look up and see what we did on Tuesday, hopefully the kids will have posted their responses. I hope that forum works. I tried to test it as well as I could with my "fake" student profile.

I also didn't go into work today, which I feel only mildly guilty about. I am only missing 2 hours work. I don't think it will be a huge deal. Still feel mild guilt, but you know, you have to make judgment calls in those areas. I have been waiting for the "bug guys" to come spray our apartments (I hate being here when they come, but what can you do today?) but I think they may have rescheduled due to weather as well. See? I am not the only crazy one. They are usually here by 1 and it is nearly 3pm.

I have to do my 30-for-30 remix. I am wondering how that will go. I worked on my blog last night and figured out how to post buttons which made me psyched. And I have been reading up on cute tutorials here and there. I would like to know why my posts aren't always showing up when I comment on peoples' pages though. That is irritating. But I did join IFB and I am just waiting on my confirmation email to log in.

I responded to a student who wanted feedback on his scholarship essays and I was so pleased. He was very candid and likeable in them, it made me happy and hope he wins some dough. I need to work on my article revision for NLM and then read my 3 articles for my Trust paper. Need to get that out of the way.
Time to work!

Tasks for this week:

• Departmental scholarship application
• Graduate school poster competition abstract
• Nag Sandra about survey
• Email Chad about survey
• Email Ruby about survey
• Grade last of Unit 1 assignments
• August conference abstract
• Graduate school scholarship application (draft)
• CA article Draft #2 (final)
• Survey article Draft #1 (5000 words)