Re-entering the blogosphere

I took another long hiatus from blogging. Life seems to have given me more, and more work, and fewer hours in the day (not really, but it seems like it). As I write this I am eating cabbage rolls (with dill-sour cream, my new fave) and waiting to teach my class at the library tonight. I can't say I am excited about it, but it could be worse. I have done so many of these in the past few weeks it's exhausting.

This week is poster marking week for the course that I TA, which means marking ~ 120 posters in a  week. My deadline, however, falls on Friday at 4:30 PM. On Friday afternoon my Mom and sister arrive from Brantford to spend 4 days with me. I am SO excited. And then on Monday my Dad, his parents, and my Mom's Mom are all arriving out of Burlington. My graduation ceremony (from my MSc) is on Tuesday at 10AM. I have taken Mon-Wed off of everything to give them my full attention (they should feel a little privileged  rarely does anyone or anything get my full attention for that long). I am happy they will be here for the post poster-mark reveal time, as it will distract me from the angry emails from students who are "only getting 85%" on their assignment.

Everyone will be gone by Wed afternoon next week, and then it will be a long time before I see anyone.... Actually... it will be about 12 hours. My brother and his friend are driving up from Smithville to visit (and see Theory of a Deadman in concert with me) on Thursday night.
I LOVE THEORY OF A DEADMAN.
I hope I made that very clear. SO excited.

My plans for the weekend are to take my Mom and sister to the Kingston Santa Claus parade on Saturday night, do a bit of shopping, take them to QUBS to see my field site for the first time ever, use my gift certificate I won at the live auction for the Toucan, visit Kari's tiny fosters, take them to KHS, amongst other things I am surely forgetting.

My next few days and nights will be filled with marking. One of the few things I dislike about teaching...assessment. Gross. Marking, and cleaning my apartment to make it accessible to others. I somehow make the BIGGEST mess at home, and it makes no sense because at least 4 days of the week I am not home for well over 16 hours of the day.

This blog is in two parts. I just finished teaching that course and how EXHAUSTING. Such a tiny room (I got booted from the big one). It seats 4. So with 6 people, and myself as the 7th, it was cozy to say the least. Everyone gets along so well at these sessions though, and its a great work environment for everyone. Anyways, I am going to have a little dinner then head to bed, I think. I have been getting up at 5am recently and I don't even really mind it!!