Q: O crap, I think I just sprained my back...

First week of Spring semester and today has only been the second day. If that did not sound dreary enough, snow was getting into my eyes while I was waddling my way to Bernhard Center to pick up some books. I swiped my card twice to cough out $130+ from my pitiful bank account. Just when I thought classes would go environ-friendly, pft, some sustainability plan that is. Settled many things ahead of time and will soon have to write a check for the school tuition fees. I hate this time of the semester.

On the bright side, I found familiar faces in all of my classes. Whee~ If that is not pleasant enough, discovering that you’re now a TA of a class in which your CA is enrolled in, is a spectacular delight, for the better or worse. Which just means I have to buck up on my studies, like it or not. While it isn’t always that welcoming, reading assignments proved to be a lot more demanding this time. I’ve got a total of twelve books to complete this semester and these don’t even add up to the text books I have to study. A seriously FonML situation, although I would prefer the F word to be replaced with the more innocent Foray. Sounds like I’m ranting, but I am seriously not.

I am merely showing you what diligent students (such as myself) do in a place like Kalamazoo where entertainment is all the way down there and New York’s is like all the way up there. When it’s such a ghost town, how can she be soooo busy? Well, my beloved nosy relatives, this is what we call trying to pok meng, and I like the pace. Since it doesn’t require me to physically jog the walk, why not?

My GSIs don’t sound happy at all; in fact they were rather crappy. They make these smiles at you but deep inside you know that they just want the holidays to come so they may split elsewhere, but in reality, they can’t. Poor souls, I feel them in many ways. Wonderful cousin of mine still believes I am going to be rich when I unearth a dinosaur bone, specifically the T-Rex. Want me to tell her that I am not an archeologist and I am in fact, actually going to use words to persuade people out of their problems as a way of living in the future? No. Not a chance. Why? Cos dinosaurs are wayyy cooler! Of course it is. But she’s gonna grow up someday wishing I hadn’t wasted my time digging in Egypt when I can be reconnecting with people around me.

Splendid! Now that I am feeling much better, I shall head to the management office for rent rebates and probably a lollipop too.

Praying for Sunshine,
Vonnie S.