Where did the year go?
Seems like only a couple of days ago that the year began, and now here we are at the end of 2007. It’s been a few days since I posted anything, so I figured it was time. The semester ended pretty uneventfully for me, though some of my students might disagree. Overall they did well and in a few days I’ll get to see how they rated me on the lovely course evaluation forms. I’m sure some were happy, some not-so-happy. That’s just the way things go.
I also finished up, for the most part, the on-line annual report system for a 2nd college at Texas State. So far, 2 colleges in the University are now using an on-line system I wrote as part of the annual reporting and review process. Most departments are using the course evaluation analysis program I helped re-write for the testing center on campus a few years ago as well. Looks like I’ve actually been more of a software developer there than I ever intended. I guess it just goes to me general approach of seeing a problem and wanting to find an efficient solution to it. I still have a few more personal projects I need/want to finish up before year’s end, but I should be able to do it. It also looks like I might be implementing the on-line evaluation/reporting system for a couple of additional colleges in ‘08, so we’ll see how that goes.
I’ve been trying to clean my office at home for two days now, and really haven’t made much progress. In fact, I’m taking a break from that right now to try and get things done. But, I’m letting myself get easily distracted I think. As I mentioned in a previous post, I dove head first into the blogosphere a few weeks ago and am now subscribed to more blog feeds than I can shake a stick at… though why I’d shake a stick at blog feeds I’m not sure, but anyway… Some are political focused, others technology focused, but strangely none are psychology focused… not sure what that means, but maybe I’ll add some in the coming weeks as if I don’t have enough of them already. Chances are I’ll be subscribing to most of them in the coming weeks because I’m not that interested in what they have to say… seriously, how many people outside of “the valley” are really interested in the social events of the bloggers there? They end up making themselves feel good by talking about themselves a lot, but in the end there isn’t that much there to be honest. More and more I’m realizing how out of touch with the “average” person they really are.
And really, the same goes for many of the political blogs that are out there. Seriously, when blog polls start to show Ron Paul with a 30 point lead over other Republican candidates you know something isn’t adding up. I know he has a fair amount of support and has done some amazing things in terms of fund raising recently, but I seriously doubt he’ll get the Republican nomination in the end. Then there’s the whole Huckaboom thing going around which is likely to turn into a Huckabust in the coming months. Sure he’s attracting some evangelical voters, but I don’t think it’ll be enough to sustain his candidacy for another year… big question is whether he has enough momentum to make it through the primaries to get the nomination. But this isn’t supposed to be a political post…those are coming later.
I’ll try to post a year end round up in the coming days, so we’ll see if it happens…
