New Year, New Semester

The last few weeks have been a total blur. Somehow, our 5 week winter break is coming to an end. It's amazing how quickly 5 weeks have gone by! With surgery, rehab, endless physical therapy, and lots of traveling, it's been a busy break. We went down to the Carolinas for New Year's. Julie's wedding was a blast.

The Happy Couple: Chris and Julie

Hey, this picture looks familiar-oh, wait, this is who I was with New Year's '07! (Sabrina, Mary Beth, Kelly and me)

Now I'm getting geared up for next semester. It's going to be absolutely nuts. I'm teaching 7 semester hrs total. 3 PE classes (Yoga, resistance training, and personal fitness) and a 3 credit undergrad course called Health in Everyday Life. I'm also taking a full load. I'm looking forward to my health class. It covers many different aspects of health: nutrition, fitness, alcohol, mental health. So it will be really interesting and should be fun to teach. I've got 40 students. 40! And they're big. They're not 7th graders! And I have 24 students in each PE class. That's 90 students at a time. I have no concept of what to do with 90 students. I'm used to one at a time! Or, 12 in a classroom! It's pretty darn intimidating. I'm so thankful for the opportunity, I hope I do a good job.

As for my hand/finger/wrist, it's healing. Rehab is still very painful, but I'm improving my range of motion daily. My wrist has healed fully. It's amazing that they can drill into your wrist, take out bone and it can pretty much feel fine in a matter of weeks. Apparently, my finger bone is accepting the bone graft and everything is healing well. Now on to some heavy duty note taking...