reid's Journal

I survived getting sick from my students/colleagues until the end of week three. I'll take it.

I'm getting back in the groove. Things seem more like a clusterfuck, but they seem easier.

I'm taking Old English this semester, for no other reason than it's a degree requirement for a linguistics credit. I'd rather take French. With that being said, apparently two hellish years of French have really beefed up my language skills, and it's going quite easily. Perhaps I'll be one of those people who knows like five (useful) languages eventually.

Thesis. Blech. I don't want to talk about it.

Teaching is going well. I get their first drafts of their first paper by Monday at midnight. We're having fun in class, and they're all really good kids. I expect at least a quarter of them will fail the first draft, but the good thing for them about English is that we offer revisions. Lots and lots of revisions.

Other things are going well, but clouding the periphery--union stuff, graduate literary journal, other groups, non-profit work, academic senate/the eboard for that, too, and now I'm enrolled in a teaching academy through the university (only about 15 people university-wide were selected in total).

PhD applications in a few months.

I guess I should go parse some Old English or grade some papers. What else is there to do while being sick on a Friday night?

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mochababy49319

:: 2012 24 August :: 11.19pm

Started a new job today at Play N Trade. I absolutely love it there.

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m&ms487

:: 2012 17 August :: 8.48am
:: Mood: contemplative
:: Music: Fun: Carry On

School starts again in about a week. I'm able to get in my office on Monday (hopefully). I just had a student email me about the syllabus for class. I don't have it done. Prep week doesn't even start until next week, and I don't even officially get paid for my work until the week after that.

Lots of things going on. I'm the president of the Graduate Student Union this year. I'm on staff of our creative writing publication. I'm teaching, taking classes, writing my thesis, and on the board of a non-profit. I'm also probably doing a innovative teaching academy program, and applying to PhD programs. Of course, all of these things are unpaid, and when it's all said and done, I make less than minimum wage. Oh, the joys of higher education.

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phil-himself

:: 2012 6 August :: 11.22am

Comfort kills dreams so we have to stay hungry, or perhaps stay greedy, to keep moving in that direction.

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mochababy49319

:: 2012 19 July :: 1.56am

Dos got a job at Latitude's in Howard City. He will be cooking your food and washing your dishes.

Now, I have been at Sally's for four years now and the place is really starting to get to me. Kind of like that fly that starts off chillin' by the window. It's alright at first, until he starts flying around your head. Then you wish you could just smack him.

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mochababy49319

:: 2012 10 July :: 3.05pm
:: Music: Shoot The Girl First- Last Breath for a Capulet

The weekend was long. Work is driving me insane. One coworker in particular. I shouldn't have to babysit you. I shouldn't have to tell you how to do your job. Although, I feel like I need to start, otherwise shit doesn't get done and it falls on everyone else. Grow the fuck up, be an adult, and stop being lazy. Seriously. It's starting to get old.

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phil-himself

:: 2012 2 July :: 10.38am

So I've learned that when I'm suspicious about someone's motives I am usually correct.

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