Thursday morning already! Guh. The weeks really do tick by at an alarming rate these days, and I also note how long it's been since I've written anything here. I'm at ACC this morning in the coffee commons where, much to my complete surprise, two maintenance men just came and opened the floor right next to me and crawled into it. I didn't even know there was such a space; what's worse is the the opening in the floor is quite tiny and watching a full grown man climb into it is far more than my claustrophopic mind can handle before 8 a.m. So I'm distracting myself.
Six classes this term between two campuses, the saving grace of which is that three of them are all the same course and one I've done a million times. But so far all of my students seem cool and this is also new. Usually by week two, the troublemakers have started in already, so I'm feeling hopeful that there will be no repeat of summer comp class.
And in general I'm feeling better; I cannot tell if it's because I started taking B complex every morning or because I have 130 pages of a dissertation written, or because I can see the light at the end of the tunnel, or all of the above. Who knows. I am starting to fantasize about life post-doc and it looks pretty good. Yesterday I actually calculated how much free time I'm going to have when it's done and I fear I may not know what to do with this kind of freedom. But I'm sure I'll figure it out. It's about time that my free hours got filled with things I love for once.
Can you tell I'm all over the board here? Too much coffee too soon and I can't focus. It's a good thing my teaching day - while long - is at least a no brainer across the board today. Taking a deep breath for the plunge in T minus 31 minutes and counting.
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