My Half-Spring-Break Starts Today!

[corrielle]

Since I teach at two different community colleges that are on wildly different schedules, I always end up with two half-Spring-Breaks instead of one real Spring Break with nothing to do.  (This is because one school starts about a month after the other, so I've been with one set of students since the second week of January, and the other group since February)  Anyway, I take what I can get.  And this is the week where I only teach two out of my five classes, so I've got me some goals for this week! 


What's sad is, I didn't even realize that today was the official beginning of "days I would normally be teaching that I'm not because of the break."  I thought it was still Sunday, and I was wondering why there were so many cars in the high school parking lot down the street with us, and why R. and I kept passing all these teenagers with backpacks on our walk that we took around 3:30.  It made a lot more sense when R. told me it was Monday.  (I also freaked out a little because that means that I've basically "wasted" one of my days already...)

What I Need to Get Done Over Half-Spring-Break #1:

Grade two class sets of intro to lit essays.
Grade and record all intro to lit reading journals.
Get ahead on making reading quizzes for 101 and 28 classes.
Grade all old 101 and 28 work.
Do early alert process for all classes.
Laundry.

What I WANT to Get Done Over Half-Spring-Break #1:

Get around to writing that darned post about certain Greyjoys. I have two pages on brainstorming/notes already. I just need to sit down and DO IT.
Make some headway with the Dwarves in DragonAge. Try VERY hard not to ship Alastair and Morrigan every time they snark at each other.
Work on any number of fics that need to be finished/transferred from my brain to a piece of paper.
Watch some more of the SUPER AWESOME extras on my GoT season 1 BluRay.
Read Timeless (the last Parasol Protectorate novel) since I bought it last week.

What I've Actually Gotten Done So Far:

Made and posted 1 reading quiz.
Gone on tumblr a lot.
Watched commentary on "The King's Road" with Jaime, Cersei, and Robert Nikolaj, Lena, and Mark. Tried not to pause every five seconds. Failed epically because I can't hear the snark while I'm laughing.
Flailed over the plethora of new GoT Season 2 Trailers
Spent some quality time with J. and M., who I love to pieces.
Discovered TV show that only ran for 8 episodes 4 years ago that I only watched because I was promised Jaime Lannister's actor in a.) suits and b.) lots of period clothing. Quickly fell in love with show for him and for other things and renewed rage at FOX for ruining almost everything good they ever had in their schedule. (It's called New Amsterdam.  It's on Hulu. EVERYONE should go watch it because there is no fandom to speak of, and I want to freak out about this with lots of other people SO BADLY.)