I find myself yearning for a lazy, rainy day, like when we got married and the room was dimly lit, glowing blue with Christmas lights and Chinese lanterns. I guess I’m getting pretty tired and I want some time to catch up on everything. Maybe I don’t really want to catch up; maybe I just want to not think for a little while. Fall break is approaching, so that will be good–even though I’ll have 44 definition essays to grade. I really enjoy grading papers, though. I think Chris and I are going to camp somewhere on Thursday and Friday, then my parents, aunt, sister, and niece are coming to visit on Saturday and Sunday.
This whole thing with Columbia really has left some people quite angry. On the way home from class tonight I listened to this radio talk show and the guy kept calling the Iranian president Hitler. Now, I don’t think he is a great guy or anything, but he’s not Hitler. Hitler wouldn’t deny the Holocaust, he’d embrace and justify it. Anyway, it doesn’t seem like such a big deal to me, especially since the president of Columbia bashed the Iranian president during his introduction. Isn’t it good for the students of America to observe the views of the world’s leaders first-hand even if they don’t agree with them? ESPECIALLY if they don’t agree with them? I think it’s a waste to get all worked up over things like this. That’s just me, though.
This past weekend I focused mainly on copy editing this Trollope novel. I volunteered to help a professor with some work for four Trollope novels, I guess creating a new edition. So, for some reason she trusted me with the first edition of The Vicar of Wrexhill, volume one–of which there are only seven copies in the entire world. I had to compare the first edition to a scanned copy of a later edition. 324 pages later, I’m done and worrying about the impact this will have on my Faulkner essay that is due on Thursday. Oh well. At least I was able to help out and can put this on the resume.
Tomorrow: Teaching Composition class meeting with Dr. Gribbin, then advising with Dr. Harris. Looks like Chris and I will be taking Bibliography and Research, Advanced Lit Crit, and Post-modernism. Yay!
I was excited to sleep in until 8:30 am yesterday, it has become such a luxury. I still am unable to get onto a more normal sleeping schedule despite waking up at 5:45 am every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. I’m getting closer, though. So, yesterday I went to take my shower in the morning. No water. This has happened once before and was blamed on too many residents in my apartment building using the water at once. I waited some, then called the office at 10:07 am. Apparently, a pipe on the first floor had busted and so they had to turn off the water in order to fix it.
The water came back around 6:00 pm, so we took Abed-nego to Blackwater Creek for a run. We let him splash and play in the creek, but no big deal since the water was back, right? We we got back home, the water was gone. We went to Christopher’s aunt’s house to shower at night when it didn’t seem like we had much hope of it returning. It eventually was fixed a little after 9:30 pm. I’m glad it did in the end. I hate feeling gross, especially in public.
Yesterday Chris and I went to Given’s to look for a used copy of Absalom, Absalom! since the library’s copy was checked out. We found one that looked new for only $6 and had gotten one from the 70’s for $2.95. I’d rather not buy from the school bookstore if possible where they were selling it for $13. They seem exceptionally expensive. We’re getting our books one at a time in order to spread the cost out through the semester. I’m enjoying Absalom, Absalom! more than any of the others that we have read so far.
The 101 students turned in their first essay on Monday and I think I have about 10 left at the most out of the 44. That’ll be a load off my back so I can get to work on my own essays. I’m wondering if they will let the grad assistants teach English 102 next year. Some of my students said they wanted to take me for it, which makes me really happy. I think I’m doing pretty all right.
Published at September 7, 2007
in Blabber.
Charity: I don’t like enclosed spaces. First I would shake, then I would cry, then I would laugh, and then I would cry again.
Melissa:Â Sounds like my grandmother in a religious service.
A lot has been going on these days. As everything collides into one, I lose track as to where I am during the week. It’s only Tuesday? It seems like I should be looking forward to the weekend very soon, like it’s Friday already.
Last Friday we got our first paycheck from Liberty. It’s nice to be doing something and earning an income instead of living off of loans and gratitude like in undergrad. I was fortunate to not have to work during undergrad, but believe me, I would have been working if I hadn’t been on the kt-fast-track to graduation plan. It’s a little difficult to squeeze in a job while taking 21 credits…. What was I thinking? I did it, though.
Tomorrow in class the students are bringing in their first rough drafts. Workshops. This means that I don’t have to prepare as much, which also means that I probably won’t have to stay up until 1:00 am like I usually do on nights before class. This is NOT due to procrastination, but simply because there is so much work to be done between the courses I am teaching and the courses I am taking. I’m trying to get ahead on the papers that are due for my classes, but I never quite make it even with best intentions. I even get tons of books from the library, yet I find so many other important things until about a week before the paper is due.
I really enjoy school, but I don’t know much of this insanity I can take beyond two years of this.
While driving around for a half an hour looking for a parking spot at campus, I heard Hillary Clinton being criticized by a Republican candidate at a rally. Now, I’m not a big Clinton fan by any means, but I just thought this was funny. He said that she would bring change, but not the kind America wants. He said that she would bring free health care to America… Oh, the evils of free health care as health insurance companies rape the poor and refuse the sick due to their “pre-existing conditions”. Medicade and Medicare are not sufficient. I didn’t think he made the strongest of cases.
Recently I have discovered the majesty that is the inside of Sheetz. Say yes to 99 cent Slurpee-knock offs.
Published at September 3, 2007
in Blabber.
About an hour of sleep, maybe two. Maybe.
Not enough time to eat.
I’m feeling like a neglected tamagotchi.
At least no one has to clean out my cage.
Tomorrow I get to sleep in until 8:00 am.
Published at September 2, 2007
in Blabber.
Last night I went to Brianne’s to watch a movie with Stephanie and Charity.
On the way home this opposum ran in front of my car.
I went into the other lane to avoid it,
but I ended up hitting it anyway.
I’ve never killed an animal before.