It's summer....I'm not in the mood to grade....

Ugh...I've been back for 4 full days now, and I still have not had the ability to sit down and grade the Music 103 final exams and compositions from the class I taught this summer.  On Tuesday I returned home from my trip to Ohio/Illinois thinking that grades were due on Friday.   I found out that they were not due until this coming Monday night....so, did I decide to get it done right away so that it wasn't hanging over my head?  Of course not....I'm sitting here at 10:00 p.m on Saturday night, staring at a huge pile of grading and calculating that I simply do not want to touch.  Besides the fact that it seems like the class ended a million years ago.... It was only on July 31st, but I am so far removed from it.  Oh well........ it was 90 degrees and sunny today.  So, what did we do?  2 hours at the beach, and 4 hours for swimming and pizza at our neighbor's house.  Much better than grading.  But now I have to get serious - I told myself that I will do a quick post and then I must get to work!  I'm going to do the first two pages of the exam, and then tomorrow I'll do page three and all of the compositions.  I would much rather upload my pictures from the trip and make a nifty slide show (because I want to learn how to make a slide show) - but I gave myself the requirement that the grading must be finished before I dive into the photo project.  So, pictures are coming, and when you see them you'll know that my summer has really officially started (august 17th??) 

- better late than never - 

- meanwhile, check out lynne's slideshow - the bat picture is incredible!  I'm still freaked out that we were eating lunch on a bench two feet over from where about 75 bats were cuddling up, upsidedown.

Welcome!

Tony and Jen - August 2008

Hi Everybody - I'm out here in the heartland and Lynne helped me set up a blog! I'm looking forward to being an active part of the blog world - yay!

More to come once I return home.....we're having a great trip!

-jb