Finding the Purple Positive

 Sorry if that title's a little racy for some of you, but it's true. I'm chugging through learning everything from the subject matter to different software to designing videos for this new class, and I'm gobbling it up as if it's chocolate. Sure, it's stressful. It's new and detailed and I want to do a good job, but it's also all about learning, and I LIVE for that. I've always loved learning new things, and I've always hungered for opportunities to broaden my horizons. This new class is giving me the chance to do that. I'm working with another professor's materials and making them my own, updating, tweaking, personalizing, absorbing, all of it. And, in order to do that, I've had to brush up on my statistics (3 classes of grad school stats and it still wants to fight with me), become an expert at editing PowerPoint, Word, video software, pdfs, test making software, image and photo editing software, and a whole lot more. I've reall...

 Folks, I just finished the last step of my first semester of teaching college!! Woot, woot! How awesome is that? Totally awesome, that's how awesome. Most of my students did really well, and I can't wait to do it again! I'm going to work super hard on prepping for the second class I'm taking on in the Fall so I can have time this summer to do fun things like swim and paint my office and go to the Bluegrass Festival, and I think it'll all work out great. I know it's going to be challenging. I've been working on it for a month or so already, but I'm ready for it. Bring it on! Yay! I did it! :)