not to pull your halo down...
I went and talked to my adviser yesterday before my poetry workshop. I went into this meeting knowing I have only 4 required classes left and three semesters to take them (and of course my thesis hours, but I'm not counting those). I had chosen the poetry workshop (with Kay, the teacher I like, hooray) and picked out two other courses I was interested in: Premodern Sources (a lot of Greek poetry, Greek drama, Greek epics, and the Bible) and Shakespeare (same professor, a few different plays, shorter final paper). My goal was to schedule the workshop, 3 hours of thesis work, and one of the other two classes.
I got two out of three. Rick Barton, my adviser, would have been totally fine with my schedule, except he sprang "oh, you still haven't taken composition studies! We should get you signed up for that, because you're in danger of losing your assistantship if you don't take it" on me. Intro to Comp Studies is the course required before a graduate assistant can teach. I am not teaching this year (a) because I didn't want to and (b) because I hadn't taken the class yet, and I wasn't told I had to until over the summer, after it had been filled. So ... instead of informing I should take it in the fall, they just ... let it go? I don't know; I hate this school sometimes. I was very pleased that he at least told me this time, and I was very hopeful that this meant my assistantship would be renewed next year if I took the class (English department assistantships run for two years, because that's how long the MA program is ... but the MFA program is a *3* year program, so we just have to cross our fingers that they extend our assistantships for that third year) -- but now I'm wondering if he meant I was in danger of losing it in the spring. That can't be right though; I'm under contract. So hopefully taking this class will mean I still have my assistantship in the fall, which would be very helpful.
Final schedule:
ENGL 6163: Poetry Workshop - 6-8:40pm Wednesday
ENGL 6821: Intro to Comp Studies - 4:30-5:45pm Tuesday and Thursday
ENGL 7000: thesis hours. I do whatever the fuck I feel like, so long as it relates to my thesis. Spoiler: I will be reading a shitton of Greek literatures, and maybe some Shakespeare just for kicks. Mmmmm Shakespeare. We're starting Hamlet next week, btw.
The unfortunate side effect of this is that my work schedule for the spring is kind of ... completely fucked. I could get up at ass o'clock in the morning Tuesday and Thursday and go in for like ... 4 or 5 hours, but then I'd have to rush home, change clothes, eat something, and go to class. So I'd be full of food and sleep-deprived and in class during the sleepiest time of my day. That's not a recipe for disaster at all. I want to work a few more hours a week next semester than I am this one, which should be manageable since I won't have eleventy million hours of homework every night.
Those eleventy million hours of homework kept me from doing any yoga at all this past week, so I'm now migrating upstairs and remedying that situation, posthaste.
I got two out of three. Rick Barton, my adviser, would have been totally fine with my schedule, except he sprang "oh, you still haven't taken composition studies! We should get you signed up for that, because you're in danger of losing your assistantship if you don't take it" on me. Intro to Comp Studies is the course required before a graduate assistant can teach. I am not teaching this year (a) because I didn't want to and (b) because I hadn't taken the class yet, and I wasn't told I had to until over the summer, after it had been filled. So ... instead of informing I should take it in the fall, they just ... let it go? I don't know; I hate this school sometimes. I was very pleased that he at least told me this time, and I was very hopeful that this meant my assistantship would be renewed next year if I took the class (English department assistantships run for two years, because that's how long the MA program is ... but the MFA program is a *3* year program, so we just have to cross our fingers that they extend our assistantships for that third year) -- but now I'm wondering if he meant I was in danger of losing it in the spring. That can't be right though; I'm under contract. So hopefully taking this class will mean I still have my assistantship in the fall, which would be very helpful.
Final schedule:
ENGL 6163: Poetry Workshop - 6-8:40pm Wednesday
ENGL 6821: Intro to Comp Studies - 4:30-5:45pm Tuesday and Thursday
ENGL 7000: thesis hours. I do whatever the fuck I feel like, so long as it relates to my thesis. Spoiler: I will be reading a shitton of Greek literatures, and maybe some Shakespeare just for kicks. Mmmmm Shakespeare. We're starting Hamlet next week, btw.
The unfortunate side effect of this is that my work schedule for the spring is kind of ... completely fucked. I could get up at ass o'clock in the morning Tuesday and Thursday and go in for like ... 4 or 5 hours, but then I'd have to rush home, change clothes, eat something, and go to class. So I'd be full of food and sleep-deprived and in class during the sleepiest time of my day. That's not a recipe for disaster at all. I want to work a few more hours a week next semester than I am this one, which should be manageable since I won't have eleventy million hours of homework every night.
Those eleventy million hours of homework kept me from doing any yoga at all this past week, so I'm now migrating upstairs and remedying that situation, posthaste.