Fall Comes Early as I embrace a NEW HAT!

(Preface: There are many campus locations for FSCJ, our community college that recently grew up and became a state college. Back in the day, I attended KENT campus which used to be base housing doublewides that were rehabilitated into classrooms. Jacksonville does bleed blue because of our many naval bases! In my former life (2009!), I taught ENC 1101 and LIT 2000 in the Dual Enrollment program at the high school. For the past several years, I have been trying to be picked up as an adjunct at my alma mater campus with no luck!) I started a new job in January as a Reading Coach. One of my responsibilities will be teaching CPT skills in a summer bridge program for two weeks immediately after the close of school. The students will be housed at FSCJ, the NORTH campus, which is a few miles from my new high school. Three weeks ago, we had an organizational meeting and as luck would have it, I sat right next to the Dean of Liberal Arts who is responsible for hiring adjuncts! CARPE DIEM! I made an appointment for the very next week to bring in all my paperwork in hopes to teach an SLS (student skills) course and get my proverbial foot in the door. They would be able to place me on the FALL schedule (80%). Last week, MONDAY, May 24th, I got a call. This is their third week of school for the long summer one-night-a-week ENC 1101 course and the professor was recuperating from an auto accident and unable to meet their committment. COULD I TAKE OVER THE CLASS AND START TONIGHT! I had 15 minutes with the Freshman Comp text and happily found a story I knew really well that would demonstrate all the Narrative elements, George Orwell's "Shooting an Elephant." After three hours, I was totally wearing this new hat! So....to Xavier, Barry, Cynthia, LaTonya, Trina, Wendy, Kevin, Adonis, Crystal, Rashad, Rosalind, Angela, and Daniel, THANKS FOR MAKING MY FIRST TIME "BLOG-WORTHY"!!!