newness

My apologies for being MIA these past few months. I've been horrible about keeping up to date with my blog. This semester has been really crazy for me. The workload is intense. The first semester lulled me into a false sense of security haha. Teaching has been a great learning experience, but it's been a ton of work too. I never believed the person who told me that I would potentially spend 4 hours planning for every 1 hour of class time. ...but sometimes I spend more than that. I had initially registered for 3 electives. I decided against an education course I originally pre-registered for and instead signed up for a literature of the absurd class. But I ended up having to drop that class because 3 electives, teaching 1 class, and meeting regularly for my teaching advising group takes up a heck of a lot of my time.

Right now I'm working hard to keep up with everything because I've been sick for going on 5 weeks now. I've been to 3 different doctors and on 2 different antibiotics but nothing seems to help for very long. I thought I had kicked it over the weekend, but for whatever reason Monday night I started getting worse again even though I hadn't finished my latest antibiotic. So who knows what's up. I'm calling yet a different doctor who was recommended to me by a woman in my program who's lived here with her family for a good number of years. Of the past 3 docs I've seen 2 were at the student health center here at Tech that's free for me, and 1 was a nurse practitioner whom I saw in a doctor's office that had late hours Wed night for walk-ins. So hopefully if I sit down with a real doc at a real doc's office and tell my whole sad story, someone will do something different. I'll certianly keep everyone updated.

Okay well I'm off to bed. Friday is finally here! I just have to teach which is a light day. Much love to everyone!