When I logged in today, it said I haven't posted in 30 weeks. Oops. Time to post again, especially considering my last post was kind of sad ( Read more... )

I haven't posted here in a long time. Life hasn't been too rosy lately, so I guess I feel hesitant posting bad things. But, right now is a time of reflection. This year has easily been the worst I've seen; I hope I never see one as bad ( Read more... )

Today I had my first "official" responsibility as a GTA advisor; we had our only workshop with the 2nd years (who I'm working with--funny how orientation is now only one day, when we had two weeks!). It brought me back to a time when I didn't know anyone, felt completely out of the loop coming from psychology, and wondered what the hell I had ( Read more... )

Lisa's post made me realize that I hadn't posted in awhile either, so here's an update ( Read more... )

I'm posting this here because I can't gather the energy to send out an email right now to everyone. One of my former students was killed. I am beyond devastated, and just when I think it can't get worse, it does.

I still can't think of how I will go in to teach on Tuesday, especially knowing that I lost one of them.

I can't sleep. I'm very worried about my students. I did a random search of six of my fifty students, and three of the six live in West AJ--two of them live on the fourth floor. I'm afraid to look for more. How am I supposed to go to class on Thursday and workshop and collect final papers next Tuesday? How do you proceed with class when this ( Read more... )

I really can't believe how bored I can get. You'd think I could come up with things to take up my time. However, I've done all the work I can, surfed all the internet sites I can think of, and I'm out of ideas. Therefore, I'm updating you, LJ ( Read more... )

I'm teaching composition for the first time in a year, so I'm having to jog my memory about teaching things like theses and analysis and stuff. Now, I'm about to go into teaching a major research paper and annotated bibliography. I check my email last night, and I receive an email from a student I taught in comp. four years ago; she had emailed ( Read more... )

I haven't posted in awhile, so I figure it's time to post an update. England was lovely. I went down to Cornwall for the first time, where we stayed with Steve's mom. She lives in an old vicarage, so it's a really neat house. Of course, it was raining the whole time in Cornwall, but I got to see the "English Riviera," and it really was ( Read more... )

It's Christmas break, right? Then why am I having to work through tomorrow? This whole academia thing has spoiled me. I was finished grading and done with final grades over a week ago. Normally, I'm at my parents' house by now, hanging out with family and friends. This year, I'm not even heading up to northern VA until the 21st. I had to ( Read more... )