Saturday, August 24, 2013

Last Few Days of Relaxation



School hasn't even started yet and I'm already happier than I was all of last semester combined.

Everything that I wanted this semester is falling into place, and I don't have to fight with scheduling or administration to do the things I want to do.

I get to teach at the times I wanted to teach at. They usually shove newbies in the 7:30 and 8:30 classes, because no one wants to teach them. But I love being up early in the morning, and I don't mind. So Monday, Wednesday and Friday, I am teaching two classes. And the two classrooms are right across the hall from each other so I don't have to book it across campus to get somewhere.

The Writing Program has created a "class" that is really just a number that I get to sign up for. It's going to be my "internship" at SLUG magazine. The faculty have been listening to my complaints concerns about not wanting to be a professor and how the Master's program is set up only for those that want to go on to their phD and teach and do research. The director really wants to have options for those students like me that want to do more professional, technical and outside-of-academia work. It is nice, because I get to be the guinea pig, and I'm okay with that.

Because I get to sign up for three credits under this internship, I only have to take two other classes. The two classes I'll be taking are Discourse Analysis and Document Design & Usability. Both of my classes are on Tuesday and Thursday, evening out my school week.

I will still be working at Guadalupe School on Tuesday and Thursday night (if you live in SLC and you want to volunteer, please let me know!), and I expect I will still be rather busy with everything I need to do, but so far everything appears to be much less stressful than the last year.

So, yeah. Totally feeling the school-is-about-to-start excitement that I am sure will be ripped away and drowned spectacularly in a few weeks. But right now. Yeah.

Totally forgot I had to buy textbooks though ... yeah, don't know where my brain went on that one!

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