Two more weeks of teaching to go... and yes, I'm counting!
The last three weekends have been crammed with grading and a bit of hasty planning :((( I've been forcing myself to use the Pomodoro timing system to keep focused (see http://tomatoi.st/ixka ), and it works, but I'm really sick of it. This is when it helps to have a little more experience in a job because you know when the assignments will pile up and can try to spread them out better. I didn't; now I cry, cry, cry.
In the meantime, the weather has finally turned cooler. It'll be close to freezing when I go to work this morning. The rest of the week is supposed to rain in the low 40s, which means icy rain overnight, I bet. We're keeping warm in the apartment all the same. On campus, the rooms are overheated, so students end up opening the windows--energy efficiency, what's that?
The final exams will be on December 23rd and 24th, and the grading day is the 25th. I've been told that we can grade at home--woohoo! I'm a bit vague on the next week or two, but it's not break. It seems to be a planning period for the Spring Semester and a tutoring time for students who will be taking the university entrance exam in the first week of January. Out winter break starts January 11. The big news is that Alex and I are going to visit his family in France for part of the break--this has been a goal for a looooooong time. From Istanbul, the flight is just over 3 hours to Lyon... not so bad!
Oh! It's 7am already--time to get movin!
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