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January 06, 2005
Let it Snow! Let it Snow!
WOW - I woke up this morning and any delusions I had of running outside were quickly erased. Chicago has about a foot of snow on the ground, and since I live a few miles from the lakefront, my options are to cross country ski my miles (just kidding) or to hop on what James has rightly dubbed the "TT" (terrible treadmill). I actually admit to liking the Treadmill, but not more than 3 times in a week!
So I have resorted to laziness and I plan to run about 64 minutes SUPER easy tonight. I am convinced that the treadmills at the new gym B. and I just joined are significantly harder than the ones at our old gym (we relinquished our membership at the old gym with the quarter mile track and amazing boob jobs - it got to be too much of a scene and not enough of a guts-driven work-out place!).
Today has been surpringly busy since I have been reading and preparing for the class I am going to teach on Monday - I just printed up my class roster too. I am terribly frightened by this experience. I taught some last semester, but this is actually my own class and, as grad students, we have no formal teacher training. HELP! I am sure I have mentioned this before, but my class is centered around a specific issue and then we spend the semester examining the different rhetorics, discourses, etc. surrounding our "controversial" issue. So we are kicking off the semester with Johnathan Kozol's bestseller, "Amazing Grace." I have my own opinions on poverty in America, but I refuse to impose my ideology onto these fresh minds; I am hoping that they all teach me something!
Okay - I better get back to work.
Posted by bridget at January 6, 2005 02:59 PM