{"id":172,"date":"2018-11-27T00:25:14","date_gmt":"2018-11-27T00:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/dhollim\/?p=172"},"modified":"2018-11-27T00:25:14","modified_gmt":"2018-11-27T00:25:14","slug":"the-last-week-of-class-feels-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/dhollim\/2018\/11\/27\/the-last-week-of-class-feels-like\/","title":{"rendered":"The last week of class feels like . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The last week of class feels like . . . Well, it feels different in the Fall than in the Spring semester and Summer. At my university the last week of class comes after Thanksgiving.\u00a0 And, then there is my birthday-December 2 which is the beginning of <strong>my<\/strong> year. This year my birthday is the first day of Advent. The beginning of a new liturgical year.\u00a0 Is it enough just to be excited?<\/p>\n<p>And, then there is Christmas which is weeks away.<\/p>\n<p>But, classes, I did a lot of catch-up work over the Thanksgiving holidays so I am not severely behind with grading this year. That is a good thing. Students seem to be in good spirits. I brought cupcakes to celebrate the last class and truth be told-my birthday! I did not say the cupcakes were for my birthday.\u00a0 Actually the students brought women&#8217;s items for a women&#8217;s shelter as gifts rather than gifts for each other. They didn&#8217;t have to bring the gifts for the shelter-it was not required.<\/p>\n<p>We also have administrative meetings this week&#8211;meetings where we eat pizza and potluck and find out about new things at the university.<\/p>\n<p>I am having an Advent for my Advent. I just pray I don&#8217;t gain 20 lbs.<\/p>\n<p>Well, this is not my deepest post, but it may be my shortest. Something is in the air. Let it be excitement.<\/p>\n<p>Property of DHF Counseling &amp; Consulting<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last week of class feels like . . . Well, it feels different in the Fall than in the Spring semester and Summer. At my university the last week of class comes after Thanksgiving.\u00a0 And, then there is my birthday-December 2 which is the beginning of my year. This year my birthday is the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":345,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/dhollim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/dhollim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/dhollim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/dhollim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/345"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/dhollim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/dhollim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":173,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/dhollim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions\/173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/dhollim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/dhollim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/dhollim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}