Unenthused

I really don't know what to do in my Wednesday session for the undergrads.  My Monday class has gotten really into discussions as of late, so when the same discussion questions and lesson plan are met with blank stares and bored faces in my Wednesday group, I get very discouraged.  Plus, with all the stress I'm already dealing with, I just become very scatterbrained.  The only thing the Wednesday group seems to care about is what is going to be on the test and not on actually learning the material.

I swear, soon I might just start lecturing them and save discussion for the Monday group.  I really don't want to do that, but I might be forced to.

They did guilt-trip me into going to this presentation today (because if I went and they went, they would get extra credit), which caused me to lose out on time that I really needed for work/exercising, and also a dinner I was invited to after-the-fact.  Luckily, they're doing some apple cider mill thing on Saturday and I was invited to that.

My own comparative class was less than exciting as well; I feel like, after reading three books and two articles, we did not go into as much detail as we should have.  We got sidetracked a few too many times, and so, I was not able to really talk about my own reaction paper, and I kind of wanted to.  It was actually really frustrating.

This week is the week of frustrating classes, apparently.

Also, we were assigned a short essay in methods, also.  Where we pretty much need to come up with our own theory.  Bah.


I really want to visit home.  I was going to this weekend, but then I realized just how much work I have.  If I went home, I would not get any of it done.

Maybe next weekend, instead of having my friend visit here, I'll go down there.

I have no motivation to do any work right now.  That's a problem.