School begins...I get pissed off. Is there a connection?

So I'm going to TRY to be more diligent here, and post more regularly and cut down on the length. But I think I said that before. Anyway, here's to trying.

I got sick. Came back from the wedding feeling kind of blah, throat a bit sore, but not too bad, and then Monday I woke up and it had gone full-blown. I was SICK. Sore throat, coughing up nasty yellow mucus. YUCK. It sucked. Made it through work on Monday, stayed home that night, stayed home all day Tuesday (in spite of it being a PERFECT spring day), and on Wednesday morning went to the doctor's. I hate the doctor's but I went.

This guy asked me what was wrong (in English), I answered in English and Japanese. He asked if I had asthma, I told him yes. He listened to my chest, then to my back, then he prescribed me medication. The whole took less than five minutes, and I would have been satisfied if he'd given me antibiotics, but he gave me medicine that helped...until my cold morphed and went into my sinuses. So then I had medicine for my cough but not my congestion. I've been dealing with it since, and I think it's about done, but one week is just too long for me to be sick.

I haven't run in a week and am feeling out of shape...I think tomorrow, though, I'm going to play (or try to play) tennis with some friends.

Anyway, back to the title of this post. I have freshmen this term. I had freshmen last term, too, but in much smaller numbers (half) and second semester, so they'd gotten a little used to college. The kids I have still think they're in high school. So I had to give them a wake up call. Last Friday they wouldn't listen...wouldn't quiet down so I could give them instructions, so I hammered them with homework. I know in retrospect that that is a very high school teacher thing to do, but if they're going to act like high schoolers... In any case, I think it worked...they seemed more subdued and ready to cooperate. I hate doing that kind of thing, I really, really do. But sometimes kids leave no choice. The class is too large, over 25 (which is HUGE for a language class), and I just don't have the time or patience to babysit, especially since this class is being taught in sync with other sections and we need to move at a very specific pace.

But my other two classes are good, so I think this will be a good term, once I get these freshmen wised up.

Hope you're all well....Aloha.