round 1 down, 2 more to go

today: long day of teaching, gave a seminar to a room full of professors and grad students (which is a whole different game than a packed room of undergrads... the undergrads ask questions you're prepared for b/c it's math you learned years ago... when you're talking to a graduate/professor type lot, they ask tricky questions because they've seen different things than you and know parts of what you're talking about better than you and catch weird details that don't bother you yet), and graded 100 calculus quizes.

while the grading fiesta was going on, i watched CBS's Johnny Cash tribute show... i greatly enjoyed it.

when brother called earlier, he was much more chipper. he's in georgia tonight. tomorrow he drives all the way across TN to go home and pick up some birds that my dad is selling to someone in NC, drop off dirty clothes from being gone working in florida the past week or two, pick up clean, and then head straight back east across the state again, hoping to get as far back as knoxville. being as we live in the SW corner of the state and TN is a long state east to west, that's a freakin long day.... just GA to SW TN is long... coming most of the way back too is crazy... friday he'll drive to NC to give the birds to the person who's buying them from dad, and then head up the coast and either push it to get here, or crash somewhere and get here on saturday.

on account of not knowing when he's getting in, we don't have firm plans for the weekend, other than at some point we'll see the new johnny cash movie, which i'm definitely looking forward to... i commented that i want to do fun stuff while he's here but we have to be good because i don't have much $$. brother's reponse? "i've been working overtime so much i got plenty of dollars, don't think about price, i can cover whatever we want to do" it's fun to have a brother. :P

tomorrow is hang out in my office and answer math questions non stop all day day, and friday is grading 50 exams day (which takes much longer than 100 quizes)... we'll see how long my energy lasts.

later dudes.