Okay so it's been awhile.... I got an email out of the blue a couple months ago asking if I would like to teach a class this semester - spring, 2011. Sure, I said!

It's going better this time I think - I just have one class - that's better anyway - plus there are only 16 students. I've had two or three of them in class before - and almost everyone is an adult student. They're always better - been out in the real world and they have no more illusions about how wonderful they are, and how lucky you are to have them in your classroom!

So, so far, it's been kind of fun.

We did get off to a slow start - it's a Monday/Wednesday class - and the first week the University was pretty well shut down because of the big winter storm we got - 8 inches of snow here, with an ice glaze over the top of it. Atlanta doesn't do well when it snows. So I'm a few days behind in my lesson plan.

It's kind of tough - I like to think I can keep doing this on a part time basis for awhile, then maybe work it into full time in two or three years and retire from my day job. But it's a state university, and budgets are tight - and of course since this state is in the grips of (ptui) Republicans (blah) they won't raise taxes to support higher education. So there are fewer students, which means fewer classes, which means less need for an adjunct professor. (Even though I do a better job than the woman who teaches this class during the day!)