Cleaning Up the Mess that's About to Arrive

I guess it's so that the new arrivals can settle in among the current rabble. My to-do list is starting to look like the seat plan to a Slipknot concert, and just as scary.

Excited and Not

I'm in a bit of a rush, so I'll make this quick. So many things to do today---not a lot done. But things worth doing will be done, oh yes.

Next week: how to try not to sound like a tabloid horoscope.

D'Bugger

Surprisingly, I went through a quick recall of the encryption technique I've been employing for years now. Unsurprisingly, bugs arose from the nooks and crannies of the re-adaptation of the solution that took a bit of a while to exterminate. Good thing I'm putting in a bit of troubleshooting code, so I could also figure how best to look for the bugs.

Now I'm tempted to put all sorts of encrypted stuff here...

Before the Outage / 120 / Pushing Out the Outbox

Well, my head's in a muddle, so this may or may not be a complete post, but it will surely be a montage of posts.

I'm glad that people can schedule outages. If only the weather can be managed, then we're halfway done, and well on our way to the end of evolution.

One-hundred and twenty posts! Almost once every three days for a year. Which would've been impressive if I hadn't been trying to post everytime I am at work and in front of a computer with an internet connection.

Today marks the end of the machine exercises for CS 11, and the last of the laboratory-intensive meetings. Everything to follow for the rest of the semester can be done solely by lectures (but, of course, would be best supplemented by hands-on work).

Out of Breath

Hmm... today's cold seems to be the clogging, cloying type. At least I was able to provide the solution to Problem Set 3 for CS 135. Also, the reservation of the Eng'g Theater has me moving the largest of my February 8 exams to the next week. Yay?

Start Up

Okay, getting waylaid last Friday allowed me to finalize a schedule... and bring home the point that February 8 is merely sixteen days away.

T-Minus Twenty Days Until...

... Hell erupts once more. Somehow, I have scheduled all of my classes to have examinations on February 8. This bodes ill, indeed.

Wowza

Could it be I'm getting the hang of this teaching thing? Well, still can't cover everything I want to yet, but I'm starting to get a nestegg of confidence. Whether or not this is overconfidence is a matter that takes time to hatch.

Ho-hum

Lethargy's a bitz.

(illegible scribble)

Ugh. This week can only get better.

Halfway Done: Giving, Receiving and then Giving Again

Was fairly busy yesterday: did the CS 135 review, gave the CS 131 exam "Hell" to TFW(X), actually finished the furshlugginer third problem of the problem set during the administration of aforementioned exam. Today, after arriving at 11, started the first batch of the fourth ME for CS 11, with 30 minutes remaining, had CS 135 enter to take their exam, fielded the second batch of CS 11, had them finish, waited an hour before the CS 135 exam was over, in addition to uploading the ME problems and annotated solutions for the ME in UVLE, and extracting the solutions to be checked into a zip file.

I'm starting to get the hang of Fedora. I wonder if that will be the first Linux distro I will attempt to install in a home system, or if it'll be Mandrake or Ubuntu, or I'd not risk anything an use a Live CD distro, like Knoppix.

Long Day

Ugh. Why can't seem to make a math exam that's doable in less than twice the time that I allot for it? Can I stand making things unfair for a minority of the class? What about multiple sets of dubious difficulty? I am off to photocopy things, and pray that my soul is still salvagable. Or worth salvaging.

Week Ends...

... and I'm facing a week with 3 long examinations, 2 machine exercise sets and one machine exercise to make for the first three days, and all their solutions plus the solution to the first machine problem. That's not mentioning all the checking, on top of the backlog of two problem sets and a seatwork for CS 135. And finally finishing the module two notes, starting on the module three notes, and submitting my own problem set.

Oy, vey.

Tightness

So CS 131 MHX already know that there won't be an exam today, and today is when classes really start, and CS 11 took their free day to make their MPs (due on Wed), but not a lot of questions. Is it too intimidating when I'm sitting behind the teacher's PC, making handouts?

Headachy!

Well, other than a somewhat frustrating lecture day, (a little more in CS 131, because I was not as prepared as I should have been), I have yet to have my first day of classes, so I should check the calendar...

Schedule Issues

Now, the postponed exams will both be delayed? Or will I make a relatively easy first exam for the CS 131 classes? And I have yet to pen schedules for both CS 131 and CS 135, or the exams, or check the CS 135 requirements...