Highlights of my Day... Monday, March 24

1. My spy cam on Mi Nam was officially put up and running today. I figured out how to extend the cabling, set it up, and then jetted off to school. During the day I couldn’t help but log in to uStream.tv to check up on the little “Man of the House”… hehehe. Apparently, others were also checking up on him to… hehehe.

2. From what I saw, apparently when I am not home, Mi Nam does absolutely nothing besides exploring different sleeping positions… hehehe. Apparently others watched him doing this.

3. Apparently I use the word “apparently” too much… hehehe.

4. Nice, we’re in the fourth week now of lectures at the university and today I finally met two of my absent students from my sports major class today. As all the students filed out of class, two big boys came walking in and asked, “You Professor Michelle?”, and that was where their English stopped. Turns out they’re professional rugby players who’ll basically miss all my classes but will score a passing grade… don’t ask me about that one, school makes BIG exceptions for such students like these two.

5. Anyways, I gave these two the benefit of a doubt and arranged for them to come in next week so that I can catch them up to speed… or at least try. I thanked them for visiting me and then sent them on their way. Last semester I also had a couple of professional athletes in one of my classes but, unlike these two guys, they never showed up. And I must say, if your university is going to make HUGE exceptions cause you’re a professional athlete and will toss you a passing grade regardless, the least you could do is go and meet the professor. I mean, you’re totally getting a free ride as it is, at least do it with some manners and in style. I’m a professional athlete; you don’t see me getting any free rides… oh wait.. I kind of do.

6. As for my other two classes for the day, attendance was in the single digits as most of my students had left for their M.T.

7. Amused what students did show up with my one-man-show of Avril Lavigne’s song “Skater Boy”. My students had told me last week that they liked that song and so cause this week’s lesson is on music, I thought it’d be fun to focus on it. Mind ya, most of them didn’t understand the song and so after I popped up my Power Point file, I did a one-man re-enactment/synopsis of the song.

8. I may not work long hours, I know that, but I don’t sit down in class and well, pacing in the classroom in high heels that make me feel one step away from feeling like a ballet dancer, means I come home exhausted on Mondays and Fridays when I teach 3 classes (1 class being 2 hours) and have 2 in-office hours.

9. Crashed after work. Curled up on the couch with Mi Nam and then it was lights-out for a good couple of hours. Mind ya, I forgot to turn off the spy cam and so people tuned in and watched me sleep… how bored are they?! Hehehe…

10. For the love of good God, may God have mercy on us all and not let me eat as much kimchi as I did yesterday. Found out the hard and uncomfortable way today that kimchi gives me… mad… “bongo”… gas… hehehe. Seriously!!! Tonight at boxing I was all over the place as I tried to avoid revealing my “situation”. Q was there and he was the one to discover why the heck I was acting so strange today. Upon his realization, he bursted out laughing. Junior Mint was doing pad work in the ring but stopped to ask what was so funny. At the risk of being totally embarrassed, I made up a quick lie and told him that Q had bad gas… hehehe. I couldn't tell him it was me, we had that discussion the other week and I had told Junior Mint that Polish girls never have gas, "Polish girls' bodies are different" was what I told him... hehehe. Not too sure if he believed it but I said it with a pretty convincing poker face on.

QUESION OF THE DAY...
If nothing is free in life then who is paying for my students' "free ride"?

QUOTE OF THE DAY...
Better bend than break.
-- Carl W. Buechner