30 Yard Dash to the Finish Line
Tonight I descend into utter lunacy with the beginning of a 5-week Spanish course worth 3 credits toward my language requirements for teacher certification. The class meets Monday through Thursday for 2 hours in the evening. I will have exactly one half hour between the time I get off work and the time I need to be in my seat ready to learn. I am feeling a little intimidated by the severity of the schedule, particularly since it comes on top of starting the new job, but my experience has been that a busy schedule usually means I am getting more done in every area of my life. Except perhaps knitting, but that is another story…
Once I am done with the Spanish class, GRE study commences with the goal of taking it late August/early September. Then it will already be time for the next round of Spanish (this time only two nights a week - thank goodness). At this point, it is looking like a January start on the Master’s program.
I realize this is a lot of tedious details, but for myself I just needed to post it somewhere public. Perhaps so it would seem a bit more real outside of my own brain. The start of a new job is always such a hopeful time — you know, the “Maybe this one won’t suck!” brand of optimism. I wondered a couple of times if my plans to get my teaching certificate weren’t hatched out a desperate need to escape the last horrible place and that a new job I enjoyed with people I like would weaken my resolve a bit. Nope. Even if this place is the wonderful environment it seems to be, that doesn’t change a thing. I need to feel like I am doing a little something more with my life, and for me, teaching is still the answer.
Anyway, new job, crazy schedule, summer (upcoming visit from mom!!) — thought I ought to make at least an attempt at explaining why the streets of the Village seem a little deserted as of late…
June 2nd, 2005 at 10:14 pm
All of this will serve as great fodder for the next Novel of the Century, right? (I tell myself that every time I say “this time it won’t suck, right?”)
Hang in there, honey…run, run, run! Cours, cours, cours! I can’t say it in Spanish!
My elf misses you. Come back soon.
Meanwhile, you knitting anything to keep yourself from going completely batty?
June 5th, 2005 at 10:06 am
Hey there, how ya holdin’ up? That’s a heck of a schedule, but it’s for a brief, defined period (that’s 20% over already!) so I know you’ll survive it. How’s the job going?