So yesterday, I taught my first class! I was actually somehow less scared on the actual day than I was the night before. There were over 20 - several were trying to get into the class still. I played the indulgent, eccentric older sister whose depths you can but imagine, and they ate it up. I accidentally kept them over the allotted time, and ( Read more... )

I am so totally in over my head. I don't belong here, I can't hack this. There is just no way. Also, I do not care to be a Latin American historian, I think. Even on paper. Maybe I'm in the wrong field? What is the right field? I am feeling small and scared and vulnerable. I'm like a turtle who just looked up to find herself sans shell, in ( Read more... )

Wow, I hadn't realized until I looked just now how very absent I had been from here! I knew it had been a while, but August 21st?? Sheesh ( Read more... )

Right, so yesterday, when I left Georgetown, I got the bus back to Dupont Circle, and got the metro back to Prince George's Plaza - all going smoothly. Then I found the #86 bus, which I had taken from in front of my building that morning, and got on that to get back home. Only I got on it going the same way it had been going when it dropped me ( Read more... )