Update on Life

Well....not sure if anyone ever checks this anymore, but here's the update on what I'm up to. I've been working at Victoria's Secret in Jacksonville ever since I got back from Germany (or around there). I found an apartment here through Craigslist with two nice girls. Michala and her roommates aren't all that far away, although our schedules tend to be so totally opposite that I haven't been able to see them as much as I had thought when I initially moved up here. And that's pretty much been life.

I graduated (well walked across the stage anyway) from UCF the first weekend in May. That was not quite as life-changing as I had thought it would be, but it feels good to be done. Not having to do homework is an odd feeling. I sit around every evening thinking, man did I get my homework done yet? The actual paper stating that I've earned my degree has been a whole other story. When my credits transferred back from Bonn to UF (since I did the semester exchange through them and not UCF) somehow my Poetic Identities class showed up as an Incomplete rather than an Audit. Turns out Germany records an Audit as a class with "No Grade" which somehow translated into Incomplete. Since the state cannot award a degree when the transcript reflects an incomplete anywhere, I've had to wait until Summer semester to have my degree awarded. Unfortunately I had to enroll in this pointless class simply to fulfill the requirement that a student has to be enrolled in credits in the term of graduation (stupid rule that gets them $100 in pointless credit fees). However, my transcript from UF was just updated today so I should be on my way to no longer having any issues with getting my degree. I'm skeptical though, there's always issues, especially when it comes to the bureaucracies of universities.

In other news, I decided to accept Virginia Tech's offer of a teaching assistantship that will pay for me to go there for my Masters degree. I move up there the beginning of August into a complex called Foxridge. I'm a little worried about the workload I might have because I have to take 18 credit hours my first semester. Apparently there's some rule that GTA's (Graduate Teaching Assistants) have to have taken 18 hours before they can teach, and in an effort to let us teach in our second semester rather than having to wait for our second year. I guess we'll just see how it goes.

So that's my life right now. I'm missing Germany, but I'm looking into options for teaching over there when I get done with my Masters or more immediately maybe an internship next summer.