I'm writing my last paper for this semester. It's due on Tuesday, so I still have time to finish it, but it's really starting to get on my nerves.
I'm not particularly interested in this subject area, but I've somehow garnered the academic affection of my professor, so I really want to do a good job.
All that said though, I keep taking breaks to watch trashy TV...which I never do. But I guess I just need moments of brain-dead non-stimulation activities.
I can't wait until I'm done with this paper. I want to knit so badly...
Sunday, December 14, 2008
Saturday, December 13, 2008
How to Survive Winter in New England as a former Floridian (Part 1)
On the day after Christmas, I will officially have lived in Massachusetts for 4 months. It's been a really big change for me, but that should be obvious. Florida was almost like a different planet by comparison.
I haven't used our air-conditioning unit since September and our heat has been on almost constantly for the last six weeks (thank goodness it's included in my rent!). My hair, rather than frizzing and poofing up from the humidity, is overcome with static electricity due to the near lack of humidity. My skin is clearing up too, thanks to the dryness and I've had to buy extra-strength moisturizer and chapstick in bulk. The sun starts to set around 4:30pm, which means I see more darkness than sunlight. But I do love being able to go outside without sunglasses and actually open my eyes without squinting.
Academically, I've never been so busy in my life. Nearly every week I have a paper due in some class, and these papers are never less than five pages. Not that I'm complaining, in most cases I'm happy when they're under twenty. I'm reading close to two hundred pages a week of literature and associated scholarly articles. And then, there's my students.
I teach one course, Beginning French, and I love every minute of it. In fact, I almost prefer doing lesson plans, making up quizzes and activities, and whatever else I need for them to doing my own work. I'm not supposed to put them first, and I think I've reached a point where I'm not putting them first for their benefit, but I enjoy doing work for them for my own benefit. They seem to like me, and I really like them. I can only hope that in the future, I'll get to have classes as wonderful as this one was.
On the non-school front, I spend a lot of time knitting, reading, and watching television shows. I like a really exciting life, let me tell you:). The Knitting part will be a separate post after this one.
I've been watching Beverly Hills, 90210 on DVD while I work on my queue of sweaters. I'm almost finished with Season 6, which is as far as they go on DVD at this point...so I'll have to find another way to see the last four seasons. Or I can just wait until Netflix gets them...after all, my Netflix queue has plenty of other stuff on it.
Once my semester is officially done, when I turn in my seminar term paper on Tuesday, I have some projects planned. I have a stealth pair of socks to work on, several sweaters to finish so that I can go outside without feeling like death is looming, and the new winter Knitty has no shortage of gorgeous patterns to choose from. I'm also going to clean off and reformat/upgrade the desktop computer, and maybe do the same to the laptop.
For now, I'm going to sign off and try to finish another page of my paper. When that's done, I'll post again with my knitting plans for this winter while I'm off from school.
I haven't used our air-conditioning unit since September and our heat has been on almost constantly for the last six weeks (thank goodness it's included in my rent!). My hair, rather than frizzing and poofing up from the humidity, is overcome with static electricity due to the near lack of humidity. My skin is clearing up too, thanks to the dryness and I've had to buy extra-strength moisturizer and chapstick in bulk. The sun starts to set around 4:30pm, which means I see more darkness than sunlight. But I do love being able to go outside without sunglasses and actually open my eyes without squinting.
Academically, I've never been so busy in my life. Nearly every week I have a paper due in some class, and these papers are never less than five pages. Not that I'm complaining, in most cases I'm happy when they're under twenty. I'm reading close to two hundred pages a week of literature and associated scholarly articles. And then, there's my students.
I teach one course, Beginning French, and I love every minute of it. In fact, I almost prefer doing lesson plans, making up quizzes and activities, and whatever else I need for them to doing my own work. I'm not supposed to put them first, and I think I've reached a point where I'm not putting them first for their benefit, but I enjoy doing work for them for my own benefit. They seem to like me, and I really like them. I can only hope that in the future, I'll get to have classes as wonderful as this one was.
On the non-school front, I spend a lot of time knitting, reading, and watching television shows. I like a really exciting life, let me tell you:). The Knitting part will be a separate post after this one.
I've been watching Beverly Hills, 90210 on DVD while I work on my queue of sweaters. I'm almost finished with Season 6, which is as far as they go on DVD at this point...so I'll have to find another way to see the last four seasons. Or I can just wait until Netflix gets them...after all, my Netflix queue has plenty of other stuff on it.
Once my semester is officially done, when I turn in my seminar term paper on Tuesday, I have some projects planned. I have a stealth pair of socks to work on, several sweaters to finish so that I can go outside without feeling like death is looming, and the new winter Knitty has no shortage of gorgeous patterns to choose from. I'm also going to clean off and reformat/upgrade the desktop computer, and maybe do the same to the laptop.
For now, I'm going to sign off and try to finish another page of my paper. When that's done, I'll post again with my knitting plans for this winter while I'm off from school.
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