Subtitled: Blogging Out the First Day Nervousness
And now I launch out into the real beginning of my semester (beyond that hour on Wednesday, when I sat in on a 200-level course and was introduced to the students at the end). You can tell that it's my first day: I got up way too early (this only happens once), I've already packed all my bags (forty minutes before I need to leave for the bus), and I made myself a proper breakfast (oatmeal, banana and apple juice). "Anxiously excited" would be the phrase that describes me best, right now. It doesn't help that I slept with my cordless phone beside my bed, in case Brandy had the baby in the night. (Not that they'd actually call me in the middle of the night. They actually would let me sleep. But you can't explain that to my compulsiveness.)
Thirty-seven more minutes until I leave for the bus. I have two three-hour grad classes today, split up by an hour-and-a-half lunch break (during which I get the next dose of my allergy shots). I'm not so nervous about the courses, because they're European and Canadian history. As usual. I feel like I'm on more solid footing this semester than I was last semester, when I took American history and German translation.
Thirty-two minutes to go. And now I'd better sign off, eat my oatmeal, and head toward leaving. Because half an hour can go by so quickly.
7 comments:
Have fun today!
Hope you have a good day!
Hope your day went well! We don't start for two weeks-- but I'll be in the same mode! I just LOVE the first day of school :)
I don't know. This only happens to me in the fall semester.
After Christmas just feels like you are returning after a break that should have been longer.
Well, it's different for me, because I barely had any classes last semester.
I love how excited you get when classes start. It's totally a throwback to elementary school for you, isn't it?
I, on the other hand, once showed up at University on the first day of classes and realized I didn't know which class I had first or where it was. Silly me.
I'm glad you had a good day and you're all excited about your classes. We should talk soon and be excited about our classes together.
This semester it really was a throw-back to elementary school, being that I bought new notebooks. (Last semester I didn't, and so it really feels like I'm starting new, with new notebooks.)
I blame the year and a half I worked in office supplies for the fact that the first day of school is exciting.
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