First Week of Teaching

This week was my first week of teaching. It went pretty well, although I planned my first lecture a little short (1 hr instead of 1.5 hrs). Now that I know how fast I lecture, though, I know to plan a little longer. Here is a picture of me packing my bag in preparation for the first day.

I joined Curves (a gym for women) in July. So far, I like it. I go in 3 times a week and do a mix of cardio and weights. In the first month, I gained a pound (I think this was due to the weighlifting) but I lost several inches from the areas they measure (upper arms, thighs, waist, etc) and my BMI went down. Overall, I am happy with the results. I hope to continue going 3 times a week once school starts. My plan is to go first thing in the morning after I bring Brian to work.

Disc Golf

The past few weekends, Brian and I have been playing disc golf at the local course on Saturday late afternoons. Here is the course we go to: http://www.talgov.com/parks/tombrownpk.cfm . It is nice to get outside and see friends. Some of my anthropology buddies are getting into disc golf, so we have been out with them once.

First Shift

Not much to report on my end of things.

This week I change over to taking the early shift. So I'll be going in weekdays by 7:15 or 7:30 and staying until 5. I am adjusting my sleeping habits accordingly and will be in bed momentarily. I've been thinking about just staying until 6pm or so every day so that there's less likely to be a need to come in on the weekends. But I'm a little concerned about planning to spend 11 hours a day at work. I have my first major assignment at work now (by "major" I mean "largest type of assignment I'll likely have, and the sort I'll normally have"). It's exciting but will be a lot of work.

Next week (that is, a week from tomorrow) FSU will start up again. I hope to be attending classes with Professor Gey as a sort of volunteer teaching assistant three days a week. I don't know what exactly that will entail, and I don't know if Professor Gey does either. I hope I can help him with whatever he needs. It will be nice to have some connection to academia still - it might push me to write articles, which I really need to keep doing.

Han and I had a few social functions with her Anthro friends this week. I'll let her post on them if so-inclined. We went frisbee golfing yesterday (Saturday) and that was fun.

Not much else to report on my end. We mailed out copies of Hanneke's book chapter and my article reprint (the writing contest version), so if you got one in the mail and wondered what it was, voila. Han didn't put in a note explaining what they were because she wanted to send them media mail and USPS employees previously told her that putting any notes in with the books turns it into non-media mail.

We hope you're well.

You will need to ask Brian about these...

...because I do not know anything about them. These are pictures from Brian's weekend activities, and I was not there. I hope he will post captions soon! [captions by Brian]

[These are several bagpipers at the Dublin Irish Fest that we went to. They were from Windsor - why didn't Wooster sends its group?]
[This is one of many booths inside the vendor area of the Ohio State Fair. This particular booth was a travel booth and feature only two places: Smoky Mt. and Myrtle Beach. Amusing that the latter is where Dave spent the last several years.]
[This is a Civil War Reenactment at the Irish Fest. What does it have to do with an Irish Fest? I'm not exactly sure - it was for the US Civil War.]

[I took this picture for Hanneke; it is a Budweiser Clydesdale, which she mentioned she liked before I left. This picture is at the Ohio State Fair. The horse on the left was trying to eat its hanging chain, though you can't see that in this picture.]

new pie

Over the last week, I came across some key limes. This seemed like the perfect opportunity to try my hand at making key lime pie. I found a recipe for a low-fat version. Below is a picture of the results. It is so yummy!!

Happy Birthday to Me!