A New Semester

Welcome back, friends, one and all...I hope you haven't missed me too much during my month-long hiatus. Well, never fear, I'm back. Back in Coral Gables, back living on my own, back in school, back at work, and back on my blog. Winter break is such a weird thing. It's just a four-week pressing of the pause button. I feel like I have accomplished absolutely nothing since I left back in mid-December. Funny thing is, I don't even feel that rested. I just feel like I finished last semester yesterday, and today I'm starting a new semester, but there was a huge chasm in between in which no time passed and...OK, now I'm sounding like a crazy person. Let's see, what's a better way to put it? It feels like I just passed an extremely long intermission. That makes more sense. It's as if all I really did for the last month was wait for it to end, wait for my life to start again. Well, now it has.

That being said, despite not feeling rested, I do feel reenergized. I'm ready to seize the day, take the bull by the horns, live life to the fullest, and whatever other clichés you can think of. Of course, it'll be interesting to see how long that feeling lasts. I put the over/under at three days. If I'm really lucky it'll last the week.

I must say, however, I am genuinely excited about this semester. I've got some classes I'm actually looking forward to taking for once. My two English courses have an average of nine students in each, so maybe we'll actually be able to have some worthwhile discussions. Also, and maybe most importantly, neither one includes any in-class exams. If you've read any of my posts from last semester, you know how I feel about in-class English exams. Take-home essays make up the major grades in both classes, as they should. I'm less sure about my third class, an Intro to Zoology course I'm taking to (finally) finish my gen-ed requirements. At the least, it should be relatively easy. Thankfully, it shouldn't include much reading, which is crucial for a class on the same day as my two lit courses. Those two will have more than enough reading for the three.

Also, the hope is that I will increase my extracurricular activity load this semester. As in, I hope to do more than the class, work, movies, repeat cycle of last semester. Now, I'm not expecting any miracles here, I'm just hoping to go to some concerts, maybe an on-campus event or two, that sort of thing. Baby steps.

OK, I guess I'll sign off for now. Have a good week.