studentdriver

God, it's been such a long time since I came on here. Amazing that my account's still up, really.

Haven't been through much/have been through a lot since the last post. A nice dichotomy.

Wriggled through some difficult classes, still have a 4.0, got a top-100 ranking by the university, blah blah blah. I'm in the latter parts of my education now, and it's been...
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Spent a good couple of hours on the phone last night with Heather. (Not the g/f, the friend). Talked about a lot of stuff- romances, job problems, whatever. Ended up reflecting on how much our ideals and goals have changed over the years...

She's given me crap in the past for reflecting on this stuff, but it finally hit her, too. She sat in her...
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So it ended.

I had the worst weekend of my life, the day I hoped would never happen, but the day I knew was coming "soon" for a while now.

I woke up on Saturday morning to find my kitty, Molly, lying still on my bed. Breathing, but unable to meow. I picked her up, and she felt so light... I carried her out to...
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I itch like hell.

Did some volunteer work a couple of weekends ago for the United Way, and was put on a crew sent to refurbish homes near Fall Creek for a project designed to combat the gentrification going on a few blocks over. Rehab a house, sell it to a member of the community for its original cost, rather than rehab a home, increase...
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Teaching... is cool. I like it so far.

I have a great group of morning students that are fresh out of high school, a group I initially feared. They're enthusiastic, bright, willing to interact. Much more into learning than I'd have imagined.

The night-time sessions aren't quite as good; the few students who show up are great, but the percentage coming in is woefully small....
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31. Hmm.

Thanks to those who posted birthday greetings; I shall, at some point, get to your journals and post thank-yous, but I'm on a lunch break that's about to end, and want to do an update, and... yeah.

Haven't been on in a while. Big surprise.

Went through the intensive training program for new instructors a little over a week ago, and started school...
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Got my grades for the Spanish final; looks like I've squeaked out another 4.0. Thus ends my foreign-language requirement, and I managed to keep up my perfect GPA.

I met with my logic professor about the classes I'll be teaching, and began setting up my schedule. It's insane. My current set-up:

Monday through Thursday, one of two math classes from 4 pm to 5:15 pm....
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A good day to have trouble sleeping; my finals for the summer Spanish class are tonight, and I should be in bed right now. Blah. Spending my waking time trying to track down an eBay transaction gone awry.

I guess I've decided to stay on SG for another year; here's hoping that I'll have more free time at some point in the next 12 months...
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Brown recluse spider bites kind of hurt.

It's been a while since I've logged on, longer still since I've made an entry. Shame on me, I suppose.

School: Going great, running a perfect 4.0 in Spanish III, declared my mathematics major finally (pure math), met with the math department and was told to "not worry any more about tuition." Nice, though paying for school's not been the problem, it's paying for the...
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My once-every-month update. I've got a bit of breathing room between summer sessions...

...looks like a few people on here got tired of my not being online. I feel a little bad, but I've had a lot of stuff going on, and updating a journal (or getting online much at all) has not been top priority.

School's hectic. Two hours every weekday in class, an...
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Biting off more than I can chew.

Hope I don't choke.

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Got my first teaching offer at the end of last week; it won't pay much, but the teaching isn't much, either- it's the supplemental logic course my logic teacher had proposed halfway through the semester.

It'll look good on a rsum; it'll look good on future scholarships. I'm probably going to accept, even...
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