Office hours cancelled for Doc B, Thursday and Friday, 4-5 Feb.

I have been fighting off a chest and sinus infection since last Friday.  The cough which has accompanied it has become much worse overnight, and my voice is affected. The upshot is that I won't be keeping office hours today, Thursday, 4 February, nor will I be able to teach.  I don't normally have office hours on Friday, but I am also cancelling all meetings and appointments Friday as well, as I have a doctor's appointment in the morning and want to get in as much rest as possible, all with an eye toward being rested and--hopefully--well enough to tackle a full week next week.

If you had planned on stopping by my office, please email using one of the forms on the webpage, as my voice isn't all it could be.

Since for our section my not being there also entails my cancelling our face-to-face class for the week, please check the website tomorrow afternoon for your online work for the week.  I also have a final note and a favor to ask:

1) Do make sure to check the class website for your assignments this week.  I doubt if they'll be posted today, but they should be by tomorrow.  In the process of posting the assignments, I'll also post, probably in the assignments themselves, on the concepts we were to go over today, that is, the basic structure of an academic paragraph and how to take good research notes.  We won't be able to replicate the group workshop I had planned for class today online, but I'll plan this activity into next week's face-to-face class.

2) Finally, not everyone checks the announcements on the webpage or their VCCS email as regularly as they should, and I would like to save folks a needless trip into campus.  Would you take a few minutes and use the contact information for your group--you can find it on the Forums page of the class website--and call the members of your group to let them know class and office hours are cancelled? You might set up a kind of calling tree, so you will only call one or two folks in your group, and they can contact the others.  

Thanks, and I'm sorry for any inconvenience my illness may have called.  As always, write with questions, and I hope and expect to be in to keep a full week next week.

Steve