Gettin' Oriented
Next week is the first week of classes and so this week I’ve got a bunch of orientations that I probably should have had at the beginning of my graduate career. I actually really enjoy orientations and workshops and stuff like that, it’s like school with no real responsibilities. And these orientations are full of practical information *sigh* how I love practical information…
I’ve started doing this thing called Bookmooch, where you list all the books you don’t want this website and people mooch them for you for free. You get points and then you can mooch books from other people for free. Of course, it’s not really free because you still have to pay shipping to send your books out, and the site rarely has books I want to mooch so the endeavor is not quite as successful as I’d wished. It would have been greatly so if I was going to keep the class that needed all these books that I had planned to mooch, but I don’t really need to keep it.
Because, hallelujah, I only have to take three classes next semester instead of four. I still have to sign up for twelve hours (maybe I’ll wait to see what the syllabus for Women’s Writers is like before I drop it. It just has about twenty books) but I can take the extra hours in supervised teaching hours.
I hope this semester goes by as quickly as the last. I know I’ll probably look back on this time in my life and wish that I had enjoyed and savored it more, but I feel like I felt in high school, wanting to speed it all up and move on to the next stage of my life.
Oh well, off to buy books for the classes I know I’m taking and, perhaps, get a coffee? A sweet, sweet cup of coffee.
Aww!
