For the last year I've been thinking I was a certain age and that my husband is a year younger. As expressed that's true. I don't feel like I've lost a year, but I was very embarrassed to learn that I'd been thinking one number when it was really that number +1. My birthday is in a few days and there's no plan to do anything big, I don't think we did anything big birthday-wise last year. Josh is magnificent and my favorite but not one for part planning and I don't have time to put anything together, so it will probably be a quiet celebration. I just hope there is a smooshy, chocolate-frosted doughnut.
Or sixteen. I've never tried, but I get the feeling I could eat a shameful number of doughnuts if given the opportunity. And solitude. Let's not forget the solitude.
Semester is trudging along. Nothing awful, but I was pretty sick for two weeks after getting back from the cruise, and have been feeling like I'm in catch up mode since then. Fun condiment racing video game: Katsup Mode! (with exclamation point, of course). I like my multicultural literature class a lot. All my classes this semester are much smaller than last time-- I think less than half the size, if that-- which is nice. The night classes are a drag because I want to be home and the morning class is a drag because I want to be home. So for summer and fall, I'm going to look carefully at when classes are offered and select accordingly. I've missed a lot of cool events because of my class schedule this go 'round and I'd like to be able to do more in the next semesters.
I'll be graduating next May, which is mind boggling. I was lucky to take classes as a special student and there's plenty to do between now and next May (I imagine before the semester is over it will feel like fooooooooorrrrrfuckingeverrrrrrrrrr until graduation), but the two years just doesn't seem like enough time to become super competent in areas where I want to be.
Looking forward to seeing Joss Whedon's Much Ado About Nothing next month at the Madison Film Festival. Looking forward to the projects of this semester even as I'm a little trigger shy of group projects. The stuff we will be working on is interesting. I lead a small book group next week for the multicultural literature class and I feel like I picked neat picture books; hope everyone else thinks so.
Work's also kind of trudge-y. Working at the public library is fantastic in that it's work in a public library, a little monotonous in that it's being a page in a public library. Several times a shift I think to myself "Oh, is that how the alphabet works, now?" but most of the other pages I work around seem nice. It's definitely nice to still be in my happy library place and interact with the people I got to know a little bit when I was volunteering. Work on campus is extremely monotonous, but they gave me a small raise at the start of the semester and I feel like if I can just get more training on the cataloging system this could be a stupendous experience and résumé boost.
As next May looms, I'm continuing to slow-simmer back burner (double range pun!) panic about getting a job after graduation. We're focusing on buying a house at the end of the summer right now, and that's the biggest life thing. When we've bought a place and moved in I imagine the panic will bubble over accordingly. What can I say? The saucepan of my life overfloweth.
