i am finishing the first week of school. and, i'm tired.
this stuff gets more challenging every semester. i'm thankful, but i want to kick myself in the ass every time, since this would have been soooo much easier when i was younger and less obligated. ah well, hindsight is always 20/20 right?
i have some very interesting classes this semester. they are much more engaging than ones i've previously had. this is great, and not so great. but hopefully i'll find a way to work them out.
i'm taking a class called "great political thinkers" with a new professor that i'm not sure how to take just yet. it is an interesting class so far, but i'm having a hard time (along with some of my fellow classmates) in judging just WHAT it is that this man wants us to get out of the class. plus, i have a big mouth, and i hope it isn't my downfall. i suppose time will tell on that one.
secondly, i am taking a 20th century russian history class. the concept is interesting, but this one is also challenging, as the professor is a somewhat deranged russian woman with some of the wildest hair i've ever seen. cold war russia, anyone? i haven't yet tried to kiss up with slipping in a little of the russian i haven't quite yet forgotten. all in its proper place and time, i'm guessing.
next is my "current political issues" class. this one is taught by a raging liberal only vaguely disguised as a mild-mannered professor. he rocks my socks daily, and the class itself is mostly a place where you really get to just talk about politics. this is just about as close to perfection as a class could be for me, other than the fact that i don't know anyone really well in the class, or have anyone to debate with... once i get all of my newspaper subscriptions under control, this will be great.
i'm also trying to finish up my lower level division requirements, so i'm taking a computer science class, introductory to fulfill that requirement. i do have a friend in the class, who i've managed to have in at least one of my classes each session since i started school. so far, it's been really straighforeward and bordering on boring. the professor is very nice, and i'm hoping it'll be easy enough to make it one of my lower-stress classes of the semester.
then, my two big classes -- "american legal system" and "mock trial", both of which are taught by my very cool advisor. these are both fairly intensive classes (i have to write DAILY for the first class). the second class equates into joining the mock trial team at school, and going to murfreesboro, tn in november to compete in a tournament at middle tennessee state university. this should be a good barometer for me to determine whether or not i really and truly think i want to go to law school. so, i'm looking forward to the experience.
but, i'm tired. i had a relatively horrible break. i was sick for about half of it, and had to serve on a jury for the last third of it.
the jury duty experience was interesting, but annoying for various reasons. i'm glad for it overall, but damn. there are lots of no-so-great things about being picked for a jury, let me tell you.
i need to stop making excuses to go to office depot, though. i just bought MORE school supplies today. and, i would have bought more (probably) had i not had my husband and an impatient little girl waiting for me in the car. damn this addiction of mine. i do love everything i've gotten. oh, yeah, damnit, a pencil case. i knew i forgot something!
my little demon spawn seems to love school so far. her teachers are wonderful and love her, so there isn't more i could ask for there. i'm also one of the room moms for the class, and i'm looking forward to finding out what her teacher has in mind for things for me to do.
i'm also waiting patiently for the weather to cool the hell off already. there is nothing worse than trying to think fall here, when we aren't even close to feeling like fall. maybe in november. i'm dying to be able to dig out my sweaters and fleece and clogs -- and buy new stuff too. geesh.
anyway, i need to get my child off to bed, and prepare to watch '6 feet under', as there are only a couple of episodes left until the end of this season.
oh, and i'm still waiting for someone to come clean my house for me. please?!?
is it really almost time for school to start again?
now, here... things are not quite the same as i had been used to living up North. school starts Really Early, as in second week of august early. this continues to be something i need to adjust to living in georgia.
my little kid, the one who is obsessed with all things Shrek and loves making up her own songs... is starting kindergarten in all of six (!) days. i mean, she's just a baby; well, at least my baby. she can't be going to SCHOOL already. it should come as no surprise that i am terrified and excited again, all at the same time.
so yeah, this is the weekend countdown to my child going to kindergarten. ouch, i'm feeling just a teeny bit old here.
in less old, more positive news... i'm finished with my second semester at school! i took 3 classes over the summer semester, and for the first time ever in a college session, i got all 'A's! a 4.0 GPA. this makes me so happy, i barely have words for it. i'm just basking in it right now.
even more good news! wallace has also been accepted to school, and we're trying to figure out if he can possible start classes with me in the fall, or if he'll have to wait until the spring. i'm hoping for the former, but the latter will be fine too. too exciting here at our house recently.
i also appear to have finally turned a corner (i was deathly ill for the last week or so) and things seem to now be looking up. this is a welcome change, for sure. and eating solid food and being concious for more than an hour or two at a time is big plus too.
i recently got a job. in the middle of last week, during my illness from hell, i was hired on-the-spot for a student assistant position on campus, looking quite rough around the edges, but apparently appealing enough to help support the admin staff at a department housed within the library. this pleased me quite a bit, and i really like the assistant director, for the very short amount of time i've actually spent with her. i also liked that she liked me immediately, even being rough around the edges in the midst of finals. i'm looking forward to getting into what i might actually be doing there soon. i'm supposed to go back on thursday.
my house is officially a disaster area, and i will be working on that issue intermittently throughout the week. i need to attempt to catch up after being incapacitated for so long, as well as compensate for the fact that it was getting out of hand even before i fell ill. today i hope to do some, but this will be a bit of a resting day too. i deserve it.
so summer is almost all gone. and, i had barely noticed it, other than sweating occasionally walking back to my car after classes. it's a little sad that i didn't get to go anywhere or do much interesting this summer. at least i do have a 4.0 GPA to show for my efforts this summer. and, besides, fall is my favorite season of the year anyway. i'm much more interested in looking forward to that.
here's to fall -- with maybe all of us in school.
good times.