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.
F, K, and B at a local Lincoln-era museum
K is AWESOME at tennis!
Thanks for the nice picture, Lynne -
Midwest beauty.
World's largest Lincoln statue - kids down below....
It was hot that day!
My kids were so hot....it was very different weather!
We had a great time at the pool - 
Freddy having fun in the pool....
Glamour Girls - :-)
The gang at the Colombus Zoo -
Cool in shades at the zoo -
Recreating a picture from 2004 - not all were in the mood to participate. We had already walked for hours.... should have recreated earlier! :-)
Vampire bats - see in relation to zoologist behind plant
S'mores
Tie die pals!
A ride on the combine - really fun!
Tall corn.
Tony and Jen - August 2008
