Good Morning, World! I'm Off with All My Early Glory to an 8 a.m. Turbo, Which Will Be My Life Every Thursday This Semester. We Got This.

I was out in schools and running late to meetings, so had others print out materials for the 8 a.m. class. I didn't know the internet was down, and only learned this when the email came out to tell faculty it was down, so no one could print any materials. I did make it to my classroom, to scout out the space, went to the meeting, then ventured to the office to realize there was not going to be any printing without an internet. C'est la vie. I did stop to get breakfast bars, as 2.5 hours of instructional time will be rough for any of us, including those who try to stay on their game.

I came home to an email from a student wondering about the room we were assigned being changed yesterday in the afternoon to another room. This was news to me...actually good news because the new room is in the building near my office. And it is better suited for instruction. Meanwhile, my car is loaded with materials to drive to another building, which didn't need to be loaded because the classroom was changed (thank Goodness for the student who wrote to me, because I would have been in the wrong room wondering where everyone is). 

New semester. Week one. The adventure continues. 

Despite the lack of rain, my perennials are still blooming and I will look to them as a sign of hope. I spent 7 a.m. until 2 p.m. yesterday readying for the class and was chagrined that I couldn't complete the work with the Internet issues. I'm just thankful I have 31 years of thinking on my feet as an educator, so I can adapt quickly to the insanity that is not only K-12, but also higher education.

It will all right itself. It usually does. I simply have to pray to the traffic Gods that I can make it to campus in a reasonable amount of time. At 8 a.m., should I get stuck in traffic, there will be no one on campus to put a sign on the doorway if there is a problem. Everyone else arrives at 9 a.m.

Should be an adventure, but when hasn't it been. Oi vay. What a start to the new academic year!