{"id":5639,"date":"2018-03-10T16:54:44","date_gmt":"2018-03-11T00:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rknibbe.com\/Wordpress\/?p=5639"},"modified":"2018-03-23T11:41:57","modified_gmt":"2018-03-23T19:41:57","slug":"busy-bees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rknibbe.com\/Wordpress\/archives\/5639","title":{"rendered":"Busy Bees"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is where I lecture, twice a week, seventy-five minutes each. Some of my students here, just beginning to shuffle in for another rousing lecture by yours truly<\/p>\n

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Listen to me, m<\/i>y <\/i>students. It sounds possessive, I know, but I do feel a responsibility toward them, all forty seven, even though it’s rare to see them all attend lecture. Usually only 25-30 show up, unless there’s a quiz or exam scheduled. Spring break next week, so no class. I asked a few of them if they were headed to Mexico or Florida for the week, someplace warm where water exists in the liquid phase. “No Professor Nibbe<\/i>,” they said, “we plan to study genetics<\/i>.” (Uh-huh). Right answer, though!<\/p>\n

I’ve never been so busy as I have since the start of the semester. Let me tell you, spring break isn’t only for students. I’m looking forward to a week off from preparing lecture slides, quizzes, exams (makeups), grading, office hours, updates to Blackboard<\/a>, etc. etc.. But overall I’m enjoying the experience. It’s rewarding teaching a course I myself have never taken.<\/p>\n

Happy Wife as well is busy as ever. She regularly sees twelve patients or more a day. Some can be complicated. Most days she’s lucky to get a lunch break, like if there’s a no-show, but just as often she’s fortunate to find ten minutes between appointments to snatch a bite.<\/p>\n

Being busy-bees we still find time for ourselves, dinner out and a drink or two at our favorite watering holes. A new pot store<\/a> went in near one of our favorite downtown haunts. It’s now legal in Alaska. We stopped in recently to have a look around. Happy Wife appearing a bit furtive<\/p>\n

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There was a wide variety of product<\/i> attractively displayed beneath spotless glass countertops, like you’d see in a jewelry store. The names of some varieties were pretty amusing – Dark Star<\/i>, Kimbo Kush<\/i>, Pineapple Haze<\/i>. In the end we passed on the pot, but HW did find a wearable she liked, as do I<\/p>\n

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We’re off to France later this year along with several friends. After that, a week in Barcelona, or possibly to Austria to visit a friend, haven’t decided yet. More on that as the year unfolds. For now, March is here, and our local weather forecaster, Jackie Purcell, said she expects a 40% of Spring this year! Pretty good as Alaska goes. Wish us luck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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