Suziecreamcheese Sings the Blues

Teaching online is something I’ve wanted to do for a while – for a lot of reasons.   For one, it would give me the opportunity to teach more classes.   I’d never have to leave the house – and that’s a major benefit.  I really don’t like most people, so not having to deal with them face to face would be a bonus.   And the bottom line is that I love to learn new stuff, I love to be the student, and I love being online – so teaching online is the natural progression.

I got accepted into a course that’s teaching me how to teach online.  Pretty scary – it’s been a long time since I was a student.   I don’t do well at many things, but I excel at being a student.   First part of the course completed with flying colors, on to the next.   

It’s a ton of work.  It’s self directed and I am not good with time management.  Or with organization.   Yup, there’s a file on this zip drive that has my course development plan – but what the hell did I name it?   Three days into course building, creating modules and going “what the hell do I put there?”  I found it!  Yes!   Score one for me!  

Oh, crap, now I have to actually do the work.  

I’ve been very scattered tonight.   A bad walk with Max, and I’m just out of sorts.   Tomorrow will be better.   It has to be.  

Spring – what a wonderful word

Only 24 days away.   I expect a blizzard on March 22nd.   

Once again I find myself annoyed by people who are posting that they want more snow, they want a huge storm.  I thought we just had a pretty big one, 20 inches isn’t exactly a coating, folks.   I think they do it to annoy, which is annoying in itself.   

So instead of working on things for school, I’m staring at the computer and thinking that I hope those people who want a foot get one, right up their asses.   I don’t comment any more.   It’s just not worth it.   But I really do hope they get a foot.   

(Up their asses)

I just submitted my homework and I’m not feeling good about it.   But I couldn’t stress about it any more, it’s done and that’s that.  I think I’m okay, I only have to get 60% and I’m sure I did at least that.  

On to more fun!

It’s Monday and I’m sick of Winter

Yesterday, actually a week ago, the fearcasters starting talking about a massive snow storm that was gonna bury us for weeks and months and FOREVER! As it’s gotten closer, it’s gone from, “oh, crap, we were wrong, not gonna be anything at all,” back to “OH MY GOD WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE!”   

I follow a couple of weather pages because I have snow anxiety and I need to know the forecast so I can worry for days instead of just hours.   A few are saying that it’s too soon to call for specific amounts.   (Thank you)   Others are screaming about blizzards and snow being measured with yardsticks.   

A few have commented, before being totally shut down, that it’s merely causing panic to talk about such huge amounts this far out.   Others are screaming that people need to be prepared!  Because WE MIGHT ALL DIE!!!!!!!!!!   

Four years ago we got back to back storms.  One dumped 18 inches, and the next one, a couple days later, dumped a foot.   I hated every minute of it.   But we survived.   We got bottled water, we got beer, we brought wood down to the patio so we could get it easily if we needed it.   

If we get a ton of snow, we’ll survive.   We don’t really need to know days and days before the event that we MIGHT get snow.  I just don’t understand the need to have updates for days in advance.