Boo!
It was a fairly successful day, but I’m feeling rather cranky at the moment. I just finished grading a section’s worth of homework and I found a little cheating action in there. Nothing makes me more cranky than people cheating on their work! It’s not like we’re demanding an unreasonable amount. And if you hate the class this much, maybe you should have dropped it. Sigh. Anyway. Let’s not talk about this.
Let’s talk about how Lewis built me a fire tonight! I should have taken a picture; it was marvelous. It made our living room all toasty and homey, and it was even nice to grade papers by! We also got our veg box tonight, and it’s full of bounty. Oh how I love our veg box guys, even if their website only works some of the time. Ooh, and we also went to the Co-op and got some essentials. I had wanted to go to Ace, too, to get some more bulbs to plant before it gets too late, but Lewis and I were both pretty crashed out by the time we were ready to leave campus.
Not much else went on today. But we have a – blessed! – holiday tomorrow! I’m going to sleep in, and get a ton of work done, I hope I hope! I did do a little private phonology lesson this afternoon which went okay… turns out the more phonology classes you take, the more crap you get at explaining all the fun stuff. But I think my student got the jist and hopefully the homework won’t be too much trouble. I’m looking forward to doing phonology in sections this week! Too bad this is the only week of it… I feel like I’m ready to teach phonology classes!
Ooh, I also wrangled Sallie Mae today, which should count as a week’s worth of success at least. Somehow, calling them is always a huge chore. I even got stuck in an infinite phone tree loop today… but I prevailed, with what I’m declaring to be at least 2/3rds success. I have all my loans deferred now for at least four years, which is a start. A four-year-long start. In another three and a half years I can start worrying about that last third I didn’t get taken care of today, which is to make sure they defer my loans throughout my stay in graduate school, which is predicted to be six years as the moment. But whatever.
It’s midnight already… I really should get some sleep! So much to do, and time passes so quickly while I’m doing it.. it’s like the very act of accomplishing work always makes me further behind! Reminds me of one of those spider webs where the more you struggle to free yourself, the more tightly bound you become. But I guess that’s what it’s all about. Graduate school, that is.