I am so happy – my To Do list is getting shorter. I still have a lot of stuff to work on it seems my papers always take me longer than I plan for but I am hoping for the best.
I have been up for over 24 hours and writing my ass off today. If only I could write my ass off – wouldn’t that be something? If it were possible I would be quite thin by now because I have written a small novel this semester. If only it all went to together and formed a cohesive whole. Hey, perhaps that’s an idea. My new novel:
Once Crazy Semester: What Do Shakespeare, Modern British Literature, Virginia Woolf, Creative Non-Fiction, Rhetoric and a Trombone Have In Common?
ME!!
Entirely too long for a title, damn.
All those classes were connected in many ways, believe it or not. I am actually very, very sad the semester is ending soon. It has been rough but I have learned tons, and I have had lots of fun.
Like tonight for example. I had to push through the last day of classes and try to write as much as possible. Then I came home and had to write some more. I had an essay due for Modern British Lit and no idea what to write about, so of course I am chatting on facebook. A couple of my friends from that class were on and we were all in the same boat – not wanting to write this last essay. Talking with them, and my girls from Virginia Woolf seminar (we all have a final research paper we are working on and are not really inspired) really bolstered me up to push through the evening and get my essay done.
Then once I posted it, 2 minutes to midnight, my friends were back on facebook just finished from posting their essay. Ha, we were all happy to have that done so we were goofing off. It was nice to blow off some steam. We were actually debating whose essay was the crappiest, ha. My friend Melanie shared her essay and it is beautiful – fresh and inspiring are the words that came to mind while I was reading it. I just know the professor is going to love it.
So that is why I am sad the semester is ending. Not only have I learned lots and enjoyed it, but I have had such wonderful people in my classes – loving, nurturing people and I am honored to have shared a class with them, honored tha they have shared their writing with me and have allowed me to share my writing, or my silliness. I hope next semester is just as wonderful.
I played for graduation Sunday and I got a little melancholy as I always do. I don’t really want to graduate. I do, but I want to stay on campus. I just love meeting new people, good people, and sharing ideas. I hope I will be able to work on campus one day.
I actually knew quite a few people graduating but two wonderful girls that are in Psi Chi with me graduated – I was in a great class with them last year. I still miss that class because it was really fun, filled with friendly people, nurturing people. I am going to miss my two girls…
Now that I that I think about it they, and that class, the group I was in for my research project inspired me. They inspired me to try to create that warmth in my other classes and I think it paid off this semester. That and finally getting some medication that helps me with my chronic fatigue.
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