I Am Slowly Going Crazy

Well, you should all be proud of me; I have been crazy productive this week.  I’m really proud of how well I’ve been able to keep my nose to the grindstone.  I’ve gotten a lot of reading done and am just about as prepared for the class I start teaching next week as I can be.  Yay me:)

Unfortunately, I have discovered the side-effect of such productivity: I am going stir-crazy. Until this afternoon, I hadn’t left my home since Saturday except to walk Potter every morning.  That may not seem long, but you spend all day reading with very little human interaction and see if you don’t start hallucinating, too.

Luckily my friend Jenny rescued me and invited me to coffee this afternoon, where we lamented the quickly passing summer and our upcoming teaching assignments. Then Dave and I had planned to play disc golf when he got off of work; unfortunately Mother Nature had other plans and threw a thunderstorm our way. So, disc golf will have to wait until the weekend.  Let’s hope I can hold off the stir craziness until then.

In other news, I officially passed my French exam.  Yay!  Just don’t ask me to translate anything for you… I also (finally) got my teaching assignment for the fall and will be once again instructing young adults about Contemporary Literature.  I haven’t decided what I’ll teach yet, though; ideas include Postmodernism, Multicultural Authors, and Post-War Literature.  I’ll get through this summer class and then decide.

So, my summer is rolling right along. I feel like I’m actually getting a lot of work done for prelims and may not fail them after all.  I hope I didn’t just jinx myself…