Another marathon today!

Well, a marathon, but not really. Twenty miles of the marathon were on my bike and six running.

I hadn't been on the bike in about 2 months. I really missed it. So to celebrate my day off today, I did a brick. For those of you not "in the know," a "brick" is an exercise routine during which you both bike and run. (Or, I suppose, do at least two of swim, bike and run.) It's obviously meant as preparation for a triathlon or duathlon. I did lots of bricks this summer when I was preparing for those duathlons I did.

(The Chieftains on Pandora. What's that guy's name? The frontman? Paddy McSomething?)

On another topic, it turned out to be a bad semester, grade-wise. Grades were lower than I've ever seen them. I don't know why. I don't think I did anything different.

Actually, when I think about it, one of my classes was about average.

Another was a "Learning Community" made up of all high school students. They were -- with 3 or 4 exceptions, woefully unprepared. Worse than most classes, and far worse than the high school classes I've taught actually on a high school campus. On the high school campus, apparently they just let the top students take the class. So those kids are smarter (or better prepared, or both) than the average freshman or sophomore. The RCHS (Richland Collegiate High School) is, I assume, open enrollment, because some of these kids were definitely **not** from the top of their class.

The third class was worse than usual. Six stopped coming after about the third class meeting and never came back and never dropped. So that's 6 Fs off the top. I don't know why they do that. I guess it's some sort of financial aid scheme, but I've never tried to figure out how it works.

Anyway, I'm tired and it's almost 10:00. I'm going beddy-bye.

Later...