Struggles

School has certainly taken a toll on me. I just finished my last paper for one class and a comprehensive take home final for another. I just have a 3 hour final exam and a 10-15 page research paper left along with typing up my reading journals. This semester has been a huge challenge and next semester it only gets busier. I'm nervous that I'll be getting married in about 6 months and 12 days. Eric and I have so much to do still for the wedding. We're lucky we have great friends and family that are willing to help us out when the time comes.

Work has been a challenge too. If you don't know, I love my office, but the people outside it...aren't as nice to me...sometimes. I've gotten yelled at for something I didn't do, had students and parents dropped off at my door for ME to fix a problem, and a whole host of other issues. Some days I just want to give my two weeks notice and other days I love it. Things are never as easy as you want them to be.

Three weeks ago for my U101 (freshman transition course) class I put my TA in charge of finding students so I could have a relationship panel. My TA could only find one student and it went terrible. Not only did the person my TA found say some inappropriate things but made one of my questions seem dumb. The class was a disaster! Then what made it worse is after the terrible class my TA had the guts to tell me that it was doomed from the beginning since nobody wants to hear how to have a relationship and nobody wants to get preached at like their parents. I was thinking the entire time when my TA was saying this was "Why didn't you say anything? and Why didn't you come up with something else? This was the ONLY task I put my TA in charge of and I felt that I needed to give my TA some role in the class besides just showing up and commenting on everything I have to say.

In hindsight, I should have asked my friend Sarah to come talk to the class about how her life is married to a physician. I think that would have been more powerful than what my TA put together.

I can't wait until December 8th. I think things will go so much better once I am finished with my paper and 3 hour final exam.