I’m working with students again, although this time they are a bit older and American.  I’m also helping them with a variety of subjects and my group today is taking their first exam of the year.  I think they’re a bit nervous, but the first test of the class is always more difficult since you don’t yet know how the professor tests.  Last semester was the first time I’d worked with some of these students and they took a lot of getting used to.  It’s much more difficult for me to keep the attention of these guys than the small Japanese children.  You’re trying to go over geology or english and they’re watching You Tube videos or talking about sports.  Um…guys?  You can’t just break into song and get all of their attention.  Well…I suppose I could….but that might be more awkward.  For the both of us.

In other news, I do enjoy walking and biking to work.  Since I only live 2 miles from campus, I get 4 to 8 miles a day.  Last semester I worked from 1-2pm and 6-9pm so it was a constant back and forth.  This year is similar although I’ve been riding in in the morning and driving in in the afternoon because by 1pm the weather is so hot and miserable, I’d be crazy to walk or ride.  Once fall is here and it cools down a bit…I’ll be able to get both sessions in again.  It’s also nice that there are plenty of restaurants and bars on the way so when DJ and I go out to eat (and drink) we can just walk.  No worries about drinking and driving here!

I’m getting it.  I’m stuck wearing my glasses until then which has been torture since my glasses are a prescription behind.  So all day I spend my time squinting and straining to see things.  I’ve had a headache since taking my contacts out, but it’ll all be worth it this 4th of July weekend!  I can’t even imagine being able to see.  I can’t imagine rolling over in the middle of the night and being able to see the alarm clock.  Of course, that would mean that it would have to be turned toward me and we don’t like that since it’s TOO.BRIGHT!  I don’t like light shining on me when I’m trying to sleep.  It’s bad enough that we have a streetlight shining into our bedroom and that we can’t put the shade down all the way because the cats would destroy it trying to get onto the windowsill.

But, anyway, I’m in my glasses (instead of the RGP contacts I’ve worn since I was 13) so that my eyes can go back to their normal shape.  Occording to the doc. RGP’s work by changing the shape of the cornea so that I can see.  And after 13 years…they’re a very different shape.  My eyes shouldn’t chang after surgery since then what would be the point?  Just once in the chair for me, thank you.  But, until then…glasses it is.  Yuck.