Hi Candy,

Most of the time my high expectations and standards work well for me. I've been self-talking myself all week telling myself this is not a big deal, but part of me is screaming, "No it's not!".

There were no snarky remarks. With the exception of one where I thought the student was clueless, I agreed with the remarks.

Part of me has been saying to me, "What are we doing teaching college?" I don't have any teaching training, and while I developed and designed complex technical and business-element economic cost studies for 13 years of my career, the economic classes I have been asked to teach are less interesting and relevant to me personally.

The pay is lousy, and my class is packed with 25 students, whereas the men have about 13 students each.

Oh well, I know life isn't fair. I think the grief from the loss of my brother, which is hitting me hard this year after 33 years -- why now? -- is making it all seem worse.

EJ