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I made it through last night ok....covered what I thought ought to be a full lecture's worth in less than an hour, so I know to prep twice as much material for next week. And the group was REALLY quiet--first night, and all that. But it was ok.

Donna said Dr G is making noises about getting me to teach a section of herbaceous next semester, probably the day class. Got to think about that one some...I'm just starting to get a good look at how much time one class is going to eat up, and I saw how much herbaceous ate time, helping Donna with it last semester. On the other hand, it'd be a fair bit of extra money for a few months, which would help pay down things. We'll see. Don't have to decide right away.

I got in to work late this morning, thanks to Donna telling me to sleep in a bit, and By helping me hunt the Morning Sex Beast. So, I'm now playing catch-up at work...there's a pile of things I need to spray, that I put off yesterday, and I need to put systemic herbicides in other stuff, so HOPEFULLY I won't have to spray as often in a month or so. **crosses fingers**

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Problem was, I wasn't getting any hands. Some nodding heads (in agreement, they said) from the three who are in the green industry (turf guys, all of them), but that's all. Donna said that's to be expected the first night, especially since most of the class don't know each other. She's had classes where she's had a group of folks come in together from another class, and that bunch stars out interactive.

And yeah, I was talking fast. Despite the interruptions...students coming in every 5 minutes for the first hour. Grrrr. I announced that next week, the door gets locked at 5:15, and they're out of luck until break.

Next week will be better, 'cuz they'll have read the first couple of chapters and it won't all be new to them. I hope they read the chapters. They'd better read the chapters. And lab will be much busier, because they'll have the tools they need, so we can actually *do* lab exercises.