Academia

Emily...in case you make good on your thoughts of abdicating from vegetarianism, fear not. Terri has decided to go veg. I've been corresponding via facebook about it. She's really into it. It's a great contrast to remembering her consider ordering tofu on her Mellow Mushroom pizza last year and instead going with three kinds of meat.

Also in contrast to being underemployed (as I was for the past several months) I am now fully un. My schedule changes for school didn't work for them. Or the changes they proposed didn't work for me. One of us didn't dump the other. We just broke up. It's pretty insane how much of an impact it's had on me. Aside from the occasional money freakout, I suddenly find myself hungry again after months of feeling like I had no appetite when I came home from work. My school work has picked up a lot in the past week and instead of having breakdowns about when I would be able to do it all, I make myself schedules in my head. And I stick to them. Nothing's perfect, and eventually I'd like another job, but my old one was starting to be a bad scene for me, mood-wise. Although I do miss some of the kindergarteners.

The snow here is deep. Cooper has a look of pure misery world on her face when I take her outside to do her business. My town is bad at plowing. But people are pretty good at driving in it. There are big snowmen all over the place. I wish everyone was here so we could sled together. Now that we've had a proper storm I'm ready for it to be warm again. I'm sick of blow-drying my hair.

I have an Americorps alum in one of my classes. She has dyed-gray hair, huge glasses, and often wears accessories that have bones and skulls on them. I have another girl in one of my classes who never stops talking and it makes me want to die a little every time she opens her mouth. Naturally she is in my favorite class, Materials for Young Adults. We read Twilight in March. So far I've been able to read the books in public, but that one will be done solely in the privacy of my own home. On that note, I need to go to a different library to pick up one of the books for this week. It's about a boy in a juvenile detention center. My professor said to expect that it will take a while to read because it's pretty gritty/disturbing. I think about the things that Alex talked to Neeeedra about last year and I wonder if I'm more prepared for this book than others might be.

I like school. I like being in a busy college town/city twice a week. The people in the program are all pretty nice and open. No true blue A-Corps level friends though. I'm starting to feel like that will be impossible. I won't build a bridge for several months with my fellow student librarians. But on the upside I don't have to play drums with them either. I feel like there are probably some great trivia people in the mix, but who knows how to find them?

Please write things on this, friends.