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Tuesday, August 23, 2005

Well, the first week has come and gone and I have to say that I am amazed at how slow some of my PHYS1111 students are in lab. My workshop group (lecture and lab combined) took nearly five hours to do what groups in years past have done in three to three and a half. They're way behind and they don't seem to realize that I'm serious about moving forward whether they're ready or not. Argh! My PHYS2211 students seem to be really on the ball thogh so it seems to balance. In PHSC1011-Physical Science I've done away with the textbook as an experiment. The book costs about $100 and seems to be pretty darn iffy in terms of what it teaches so I've decided to do a lot of web-based research type reading assignments. I'm not sure if the students will do the readings but I'm not sure they really did them out of the text last year. I'll be very interested to see how it goes.

I had a couple of really good rides over the weekend. I got together with the "On Your Left" group on Sunday to ride the Silver Comet Trial. It was pretty darn awesome, especially after the 15 mile mark. Beautiful scenery and not a whole lot of traffic, especially out near Rockmart. I highly recommend the trail and I'm looking forward to it being finished so a person could ride all the way from Atlanta to Birmingham; something I'd like to do when I get the chance. Maybe ride back the next day as well. This week will consist of more climbing work to try to get my legs ready for the hard stuff. The weather was supposed to break and give us a little relief but the day a cold front is going to move through keeps getting pushed back so now we're not likely to get any break from the oven that is Georgia until Friday night at the earliest. So I guess I'll continue doing rides that leave me soaked in sweat and wrung out for the two hours afterwards. It beats trying to ride in hurricane conditions however.

Thanks for Reading.

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