Spent my day resting and working on lesson plans.  Since I am teaching stats again, I am taking the opportunity to tweak and improve my lesson plans, homework, quizzes, and activities.  I am pretty excited about some of the changes, which were inspired by a class I took this summer when I was working on my online teaching certificate.  One change is having the students look for examples of statistics, charts, graphs used incorrectly (there are an abundance of them everywhere, newspaper, news, magazines, etc).  They will post a picture of it and write a few sentences about it.  But by having them post it to the class website, we can all smile and enjoy the errors, rather than just me enjoying them.  And each student needs to reply to at least one other student's post, which will help build connections with their classmates.  Just stuff like that....

Other than that, even with the intermittent rain, it is so dry here.  I am drinking tons of water and still feel parched.  And using lots of lotion.  I guess my new cactus plant will feel at home here though.  At least until it snows!  :)