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Fall Semester...
Friday, August 31, 2007So, the end of the first week. It’s amazingly, exhaustingly busy, and has been much more good than bad…I wouldn’t have said bad at all except I just got lightly reprimanded by a dean’s secretary. I try not to care, but I do. Anyway, it was wonderful in some ways. All my student workers from last year save one came back, and they were happy to see me. I love how after time they seem to open up more and more and regard you as a part of their lives, and not, perhaps, a bad part, rather than someone who sits behind a desk and calls out orders sometimes. And one by one the familiar faces of my majors are filing in…I met the group who, if they stayed here, would be stuck with me for the next four years yesterday, and as I introduced myself I wondered at them, wondered who would shine and who would stay so far in the background that I’d never remember their name. And of course, the faculty. I actually love having them back, and I like doing things and being useful. It was almost as if I was feeding off the energy of the new beginning. I was just in a spectacular mood, even though I had no time to do anything but work. Now things are falling into the proper place, and my lunches might go back to being my lunches. I finally finished the Cinderella Essay, and now I have to just read it once more time to make sure it’s edited enough. I was certain I couldn’t change the beginning, determined that I would no matter what, and was pleasantly surprised when all the words fell into place, reassembling themselves where they were supposed to go. My next battle is to try and work on Water’s Edge and another Neil Gaiman article. And another short story. Permalink Cindy scribed this at 2:34 PM 0 comments |