A rainy Monday

Today was overall a really good day...I feel like I got a lot accomplished today. I was nominated by a colleague to be our school districts' technology instructor of the year. It was a really awesome and welcome surprise. I get to go to a celebration dinner on February 21 (and I get to bring along Peter!), as well as attend and exhibit at a technology showcase in April. The association that sponsors the showcase is having a two day conference in April, which I plan on attending, and I even decided to put in a proposal to do a 45 minute workshop on using Blackboard while instructing. I've never put in a proposal before, but I just held my breath and submitted it. Hey, what's the worst that could happen?

I graded a whole stack of papers from my senior class today immediately after they left. I even entered them in our online gradebook and have them ready to give back tomorrow. This is the second day in a row that I have done that. Felt really good to do that. I'm desperately trying to stay on top of things with grading this semester. My juniors took a computer test today (an excel test which they submitted through Blackboard) and I need to look at those still.

I met with my current instructor in my doctorate program to talk about my progress thus far. I was really kind of nervous about going because I really felt like she didn't like me all that much. But the meeting went surprisingly well. We actually have some interests in common. I never would have seen that coming. I've taken notes for all of Chapter 7 in my reading to prepare for my Stats quiz. 5 more chapters to go. I'd like to get the reading done by Thursday night so I can take the quiz Friday afternoon. It's an online quiz due Saturday by midnight. I'm practicing the examples as I go along. I think I have z scores figured out. Next is T- Scores.

I took a power nap on the couch this evening with my head in Peter's lap while he watched tv. He's so sweet for letting me do that. My stuffed animal, a.k.a. Mr. Kitty, kept me company as well (ok to be fair, he didn't have an option because of my power grip on him, but he didn't try to get up, so it must not have been that bad).

I found some neat scrap papers online last night. I discovered the Digital Scrapbook Place online last night. They had some pretty awesome freebies which I downloaded last night and plan on playing with tonight or tomorrow sometime. I really want to scrap our New Year's and CES trip before Valentine's Day is upon us and I get farther behind. My Mom graduates with her doctorate this weekend, which means even more picture taking opportunities.

Off to read some blogs!