A student fell asleep in class today.  After class was over, the rest of the class scurried out while I was packing up my teaching-things.  I was the last one out of the room, and the kid was still sprawled on his desk sleeping.

This will end in one of two ways: either the kid wakes up and the room is empty, or the kid is woken up by someone in the next class that uses the room after my class (it’s some kind of foreign language class; I believe an Eastern language because I saw the next teacher carry the book into the class once).  Either way he is going to be confused and probably embarrassed.  It makes me giggle thinking of either of these outcomes.  Also, I love the fact that none of my other students in the class that were sitting around him woke him up before they left.  Muahahaha.

That’s the most exciting thing going on right now though.  I have some homework to do.  And I only have 3 sections worth of lectures left to write and then I’m going to be able to write my first exam ever.  I am actually really excited to write exams for my class.  I already have several ideas about what kinds of questions I want to ask.  The hardest part will be selecting the absolutely most important types of questions.  It’s all pretty important, and the exam will cover two whole chapters that are quite dense with material.  A lot of topics overlap though, or have question types that can cover more than one of the topics we discussed.  So… I guess we’ll see how it goes.

In other news, I quit Facebook, at least for now.  I’ve been flip-flopping on the issue for a year or two now, especially since I graduated college.  It’s very convenient to be able to broadcast to and hear updates from all my friends from Pennsylvania all at once all in one place, but the day to day was getting grueling.  It wasn’t one incident, or one person.  There are just too many people that get too sensitive about every little thing on the Internet that bothers them. I’m just removing myself from the situation.  I’m leaving Facebook for the same reason I don’t ever comment on news articles or join message boards or forums.

The Internet is not real life.  It is sometimes a reflection of reality, but it’s not the whole picture.  No one’s Internet identity is their actual identity, myself included.  But when online frivolity affects real-world interactions, social networking is working against its intended purpose.  It is supposed to bring people together and allow open communication; not separate people and shut down communication.

Oh, and besides the reasons above, some people are just plain annoying on Facebook, but you can’t get rid of them because you know them in real life (and presumably don’t find them quite as annoying in real life).  If you don’t know what I mean, I will refer you to The Oatmeal’s take on the subject.

For now I’ll stick to blogging.  It’s not a broadcast among the masses.  You have to specifically come to my site if you want to hear my views.  I’ve always said: if you don’t want to hear what I have to say, you don’t have to come here and read it.  It’s not like you’re already here for something else anyway and incidentally have to read my ramblings.

Anyway, I don’t mean to sound so upset about it, because really I’m not. It’s not like anyone NEEDS Facebook, and that’s just one more distraction I’ve eliminated from getting things accomplished in my real life.  With that said, it’s time to start accomplishing things in real life.  There are topology problems that aren’t going to solve themselves, and lectures that aren’t going to write themselves!

PS.  If there’s one topic that you thought I’d address that is notably absent, it’s intentional.  Yes, I’m aware that football season has begun, and no I’m not going to comment on yesterday’s events because I’ve already done enough bitching here for one day.