Arbeit Macht Frei

I actually did work today! The whole day! I didn't even finish! Things are finally moving along. Spent the whole day grading, but it's a nice break from days of sleeping at my desk or reading Wikipedia or programming. (Still hard not to fall asleep at my desk though.)

Just finished some maps for giving directions for tomorrow's lesson. Used my campus map - DePaul Lincoln Park Campus. Hopefully it's not too hard. I have a backup map I can make quickly.

My lawn is going swimmingly. Today, there was a praying mantis chillin' and checkin' out my lawn. Just swaying in the wind.

I'll fill everyone in on all the details up 'till now in another post. Hopefully soon. Particularly the part about the lawn.

Whoops, forgot to hit publish.

PS, I made updated maps, not sure why I thought I would make 161 color maps, so these have no color:

UPDATE!

Here are the empty and full versions for if you want something to demonstrate with without revealing answers or want to use as an answer key. 

However, really, I wouldn't use these maps again. The initial start location is a bit unclear, you can really only go East, but it needs to be more clear anyway. And the blocks are uneven. In many, many places, the block length is different by which side of the street you are on and some places it is hard to tell if there is a new block or not. Also the word blanks appear to be buildings so, for example, when things should "be on your right", instead students think they are facing it. Also I didn't like the arrows. I really don't know why I didn't fix the first arrow when I didn't like it before I started copy-pasting it all over...