Procrastination ++
I really don't have much to report. I'm currently sitting here in my office, posting to my livejournal to avoid grading. By Tuesday the 21st (or maybe Thursday the 16th) I'm supposed to finish grading 103 exams. I only have 85 left. I would like to get 50 of those graded today, but these exams take longer to grade than the previous ones because each one is two essays out of a choice of three, so you're not always grading the same question everytime. Anyway, I want to get done early, because my research paper for 20th Century Russia is due soon. Supposedly we are supposed to e-mail them to the entire class and the professor on the Monday preceeding class, which would make mine due on the 20th and to be presented on the 27th. My classmates so far, however, have been waiting until the last minute to e-mail them. Last week, they waited until Friday and Saturday and Dr. Dunn didn't say a thing about them being late. This week, we still haven't gotten them and it's after 4pm on Sunday. To me that's fucking rediculous, but I guess it does mean that I don't have to kill myself to get it done by the 20th. Still, I would like to get mine done before Thanksgiving (the 23rd).
So, yeah...I tend to ramble on here sometimes.
I'm beginning to feel more and more sure that I'm going to have to stay around and be a TA in the Spring. That's all well and good, but it almost definitely means I'd have to move back in with my mom for the Summer while I attempt to get a job for the Fall. My mom and I get along really well, so that wouldn't be the end of the world, but it honestly feels like such a major step backward...to get a bachelor's degree and then a master's, only to have to go back home and live with my mom. I guess when it comes down to paying the bills, though, my pride will take a backseat.
See, if I can get a teaching job in the Spring, then I'll be ok for the Summer, because even though you don't work in the Summer, you're still payed on a 12-month salary (at least in this region). That's why I'm really hoping to get one. Then I can stay here. And if I have to settle for taking a special education job, then so be it. Maybe I'll find a history job in the Fall.
I don't know, I guess we'll have to see how it goes.
Anyway, between teaching certification class (this is the last week, though! Wooo!), my research paper for Dunn that I've yet to really start on, and all this damn grading, I'm really really cramped for time. Plus, my mom is coming to visit next weekend and I don't have the heart to tell her not to come. So, I guess I'd better get busy.
Peace,
~Keroo
So, yeah...I tend to ramble on here sometimes.
I'm beginning to feel more and more sure that I'm going to have to stay around and be a TA in the Spring. That's all well and good, but it almost definitely means I'd have to move back in with my mom for the Summer while I attempt to get a job for the Fall. My mom and I get along really well, so that wouldn't be the end of the world, but it honestly feels like such a major step backward...to get a bachelor's degree and then a master's, only to have to go back home and live with my mom. I guess when it comes down to paying the bills, though, my pride will take a backseat.
See, if I can get a teaching job in the Spring, then I'll be ok for the Summer, because even though you don't work in the Summer, you're still payed on a 12-month salary (at least in this region). That's why I'm really hoping to get one. Then I can stay here. And if I have to settle for taking a special education job, then so be it. Maybe I'll find a history job in the Fall.
I don't know, I guess we'll have to see how it goes.
Anyway, between teaching certification class (this is the last week, though! Wooo!), my research paper for Dunn that I've yet to really start on, and all this damn grading, I'm really really cramped for time. Plus, my mom is coming to visit next weekend and I don't have the heart to tell her not to come. So, I guess I'd better get busy.
Peace,
~Keroo