Good grief i have been busy lately! I was looking forward to some down time after moving last month, but my volunteer job at Puget Sound Community School has started up this past week. I have only myself to blame for my workload, of course. I didn't have to agree to teach three classes, but i'm a bit of a sucker. So, i'm teaching French twice a week from the Foreign Service Institute's (US diplomat school) curriculum, plus a weekly class on Flannery O'Connor's short stories from the collection Everything That Rises Must Converge, and a course in preparation for and participating in NaNoWriMo, National Novel Writing Month, this November.
All of this is fun, but i'm not sure how grouchy i'm going to be once my paying job with TechStart begins again next month. I'll be teaching robotics again, but not until the spring quarter. Fall and winter will be taken up with Scratch and Alice, neither of which i have used before. Should be interesting, especially during November when i'm supposed to be churning out a 50,000 word novel. Wish me luck!
P.S., Some people have been asking me about Puget Sound Community School and how it works. Here's a YouTube video of the scheduling process to give you an idea:
