I thought I'd update my five faithful readers on some of the things going on in my life of late. Here's another picture from the bike photo project. Actually, I took this a while ago and it's one of my favorites. My wife has done a photoshop rendition of this where the red of the bike has been left in that's pretty cool. I call it "Pure Motion".
The cooking gig went ok. The school dining room has a station called "Innovations" which is basically a saute bar. Me and the regular line chef there whipped up plates of "Pasta Pronto" which was basically ziti, an alfredo sauce and a couple of veggies. Not the most difficult thing I've ever cooked but the students seemed to like it and it was good to see so many of them in a different environment.
I finally finished my gig teaching physics up at the local technical college. Georgia is a bit unique in that there are two parallel two-year college systems; one for transfer to four year schools and the other as a technical/job skills system. I've always taught in the transfer track so this was an interesting experience. The students were a lot more motivated than some of my students at Gordon but not as well prepared for the most part so I had to teach harder but they were willing to work harder. Anyways, the gig is done and hopefully I'll regain a little of the flexibility I once had in my schedule. I need that now that the weather is turning better and the grass (there are actually a lot of weeds too) is starting to get taller.
I'm torn as to exactly what next school year will be like. I've been spending a lot of time thinking about what I want to do deep down. So many of our students need so much help and I think I have something to offer a lot of them. The problem is I don't know whether they want to hear it from me. Part of it is a culture thing. I'm a smaller town white guy and a lot of the students in our residence halls come from the south Atlanta metro region due to the vargarities of geography. It's hard to reach the communiting studnet because they show up, take classes and then jet but the dorm students are more available and more interested in things that can be delivered to them. So I'm thinking of taking a series of "student skills" seminars into the dorms. My other option is to continue to work in faculty leadership by taking the next step towards becoming Faculty Senate chair. I like the idea in some ways but in others I'm not so sure. How much time will it take and will it help me offer what I may have to the students, assuming they want to hear what I have to say. In any case there's a lot of good I think I can do so I have to make a decision. Maybe some of that will be determined by how I do at Nationals.
Thanks for Reading.
