Aug. 31, 20: Hardcore Working, Laps, and Games

over 3 years ago

Well, Holy Moly, today was one for the books. Up at seven with a solid night’s sleep, but woke up stressing out of the gate.

Got my morning routine done pretty quick. Today was the first day of the fall semester and I had a ton of work left to do getting things ready.

I literally spent the whole day working, only took a break to eat, twelve plus hours. Seemed like basically everything I tried to get done had some kind of barrier preventing me.

I got WebAssign set up, but since I copied another professor’s course, I can’t edit or do anything with them, so probably going to have to recreate them from scratch anyway.

Even though I’ve taught both Calculus I and College Algebra before, it had been a while and for some reason I didn’t have a copy of the syllabi or calendars.

I dug through some old stuff and found a pdf (which of course I couldn’t edit), and I recreated both from scratch for the Calculus class. Got their Blackboard site set up with the grade book and stuff and then sent them out an announcement with instructions for getting started.

The Algebra I couldn’t find at all, so I emailed the lead faculty and they sent me one...in Word, and I don’t have Office, so I got to fight with that and eventually edited it right in the email. The calendar, however, was pretty much useless and just says like “section 1.1” so I’m going to have to remake that as well, but I didn’t get that done.

The Algebra Blackboard site hasn’t been created yet and so I had to send an email to the department chair. We got that worked out and I got their gradebook set up as well and then sent them out an announcement. Still need to get that calendar done and redo all the WebAssign. 😡

Then, of course, people started pouring into the Discord, so I was madly chatting and answering questions while trying to keep up with assigning roles.

So far the students seem very cool, though...roughy being completely online, but we’re all rolling with the (unnecessary) punches.

Once things finally calmed down on Discord, I quick grabbed some leftovers that Wenche made for dinner, looked at the Fitbit and saw that I only had 4500 steps. 😱

While I was working ALL day, I really didn’t want to break the streak, so I did laps around the house for a good hour or more.

Fitbit wasn’t registering it as an activity, and I wanted it to count as an exercise toward my weekly goal, so even though I knew that the map would be screwy, I fired it up anyway.

While I did my laps, I played my Splinterlands quest for the day and then laid down and watched some Lucifer. Was tough to fall asleep, though, cause my back was killing me and firing pain pulses down my leg. 😢🤕 Nevertheless, the ten thousand steps per day streak remains alive! 💪

Same old, same old in the dCity today, which is fantabulistic! Still a little short for the next card, but getting pretty close now, got over 1500 SIM saved.

I got all my Holybread tasks done as well! 🤩 I was a bit doubtful up against the same set of guys, but I did alright!

Pushing back up into the top ten again!!! I kinda’ feel like I don’t belong up here with the other guys having their heroes completely leveled, but hey, I’m happy! 😁