before there were lid kids

I have two days of class left. Four whole classes. On Wednesday, I will unofficially be a fully licensed NC teacher. It feels great – except that in one class, our teacher has backloaded the assignments, so I’ve spent a good proportion of my Thanksgiving holiday doing school work. Friday, I wrote 3 papers and […]

I am taking some FHS students to Efland, NC for a retreat this weekend. They are the same students that went to camp with me this summer at the “Student Athlete Summer Institute”, or SASI as we like to call it. It’s a lot of fun and I’m looking forward to seeing other coaches and […]

That’s right. Five more class days. 10 classes in all. It’s getting close!! Basketball is in full swing. We have our first game Wednesday. Scrimmages looked good. We’re small. No one is taller than about 5′ 9″. And we don’t really have any TRUE post players. Well, maybe one, I guess. We had a long […]

Basketball started on Monday. Last year, it was all I could do to keep up with basketball and school. Now, I have to contend with those AND my last month of classes at WSSU. It’s going to get crazy busy for about a month. Then, my classes will be over. And I’ll be a REAL […]

So, I am pretty much overwhelmed with work. It just keeps piling on. And with basketball on the horizon, it’s not looking like it will slow down anytime soon. I spent all weekend grading things. Three tests from Friday. Four seperate sets of homework. Good times. We also finally started meeting with the youth in […]

There you have it. The new dog.

We’ve been very busy this weekend, installing a new fence in our backyard. I think we are saving about $1000 by doing it ourselves, but it’s been quite a task. I think it will be finished by tomorrow night. Finally… no more walking the dog(s) on leashes in our own backyard. Which brings me to […]

Last night, in my Algebraic Structures class, everything was going well. We had 5 minutes remaining. Our Professor of Mathematics with a PHD behind her name had remained uncharacteristically positive for the first 70 minutes. We were feeling pretty good about the material. It looked like we were heading for an uneventful class. Then, she […]

So, last night, in my Algebraic Structures class (Modern Algebra), my teacher called out MY teaching skills. The situation went like this: There was one student at the board trying to work out a problem. I was on the next of three problems assigned in class. She asked if I could help out, since no […]