Ah, it feels wonderful to be back in school again. I haven’t been a student for almost nine months, which is just enough of a break that I’m itching to stretch my note-taking and attention-paying muscles a bit without worrying that they’ve atrophied beyond recovery.

It’s also a nice change to be in a classroom setting and NOT be responsible for the entire direction and progress of the class. Discussion wanders off topic? Not my problem. Lose my train of thought? It’ll come back to me. Rather be grumpy than peppy? Not gonna ruin anyone’s day but my own.

Don’t get me wrong: I love teaching*. But I also love learning. I don’t know which I like better, and I’m glad I don’t have to decide right now. (Or ever?)

In other news, I have YET ANOTHER part-time job, bringing my total number of simultaneous part-time positions with one company to FIVE. This new job, which as far as I know didn’t exist until today (it used to be part of a full-time position), involves me driving around to all the major schools in the Houston area and dropping off information with their college counselors. Three-ish mornings a week, five or six schools at a time. Not bad, not bad at all.

In short, I AM CRAZY BUSY. I’m feeling good right now, I think because I like beginnings. I’m good at beginnings. I think I would be okay at endings, too, if I could ever get to them. It’s the middles that always trip me up.

(Oh, and I think I’m getting sick—awful timing. In my first lesson this evening my throat started tickling, and now I’ve got a headache and a runny nose. Even half a pint of Cherry Garcia (the frozen yogurt kind) didn’t make it better. Blah.)

* Confidential to those-in-the-know: Gah! Bobinga flashback. (Btw, did anyone notice they edited ‘poet-cum-gardener’ out of the new edition? Makes me sad—that one was always good for a laugh.)

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