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Tuesday, March 27, 2007

This last weekend was a long one. We got word on Thursday that one of the Lovely Wife's sisters was leaving her husband for some pretty good reasons. We had planned to go and visit a friend in Birmingham but quickly changed plans to head to LA to help with the late night packing and moving. It was a stressful time as you might imagine but everyhting seems to have been accomplished with as little drama as possible.

I managed to get a couple of good rides in and am now near 1000 for the month. My strength still isn't anywhere I need it to be and I'm beginning to think I won't be doing much racing this month. Between battling scheduling issues and some vertigo which seems to come and go randomly, I feel like I've been struggling to get into some kind of shape. I went in for a physical and neither the doctor nor the blood tests indicated that anything was wrong but I'm still not sure. Hopefully some of this stuff will clear up over the next few weeks.

Classes continue along fairly well. It's great having four dedicated groups of students who really seem to want to learn. It makes my job a lot easier. I've arrived at that time of the year where I have to decide what my focus is going to be. I'll be chair of our Faculty Senate next year so that's pretty much locked in. What I'm trying to figure out is how much student study skills stuff I'd like to do. I think I'd liek to do the same summer seminar I did last year through community ed but I'm not sure about doing an on-campus thing. I don't get paid and I got almost no response last year. The student services division says that they want to support such activities but then they didn't last year. I think I'd rather spend the time promoting the Christian group I'm the faculty advisor for. Maybe when I'm not doing faculty governance things I can take that time and energy and try to do something to get student services moving int he right direction.

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