Wow, that went by fast! Time to get back into blogging. You know me, I have such a love-hate relationship with blogging. I just get pulled back to it. I feel so connected to this medium, for 8 years, off and on, back and forth, through the highs and lows.
I sure left off in May in a low. Life was getting rough for awhile there. Freshly out of grad school, no job, and I started to fear that would be my new normal.
But now let me pick back up. So many changes in 4 months.
Let me give you the short run down then I'll go into details about them. Maybe I'll just give the overview tonight and go into the details in coming up entries.
So here is the run down of all that has happened.
Um, I was working at the coffee shop-yeah, I quit that, more on that later.
So now I've found a real career. I'm a professor now at a school in the Tampa region. I love it. It's only an adjunct position through December. Hopefully they offer me another contract for the spring semester. For now though I am loving this job. This is what I am meant to do. I am part of a carpool to Tampa the three days a week I teach.
I am still at UCF working in the sociology lab. Sure the work there is few and far between but its good while it last.
My roommate Brian moved out and now we have a new awesome roommate S. from Calcutta. It's a great cross-cultural experience.
I'm still single but there is someone I been talking to. Actually I have a few people I'm interested in but only one that really stands out. I'll keep you informed how it all goes.
I just left the coffee shop last week (thus the reason I have time to even write this). I was working in Tampa three days a week and at the coffee shop 3-4 days a week. It was rough and not needed. I wanted to stay at the coffee shop but with their lack of ability to schedule me for less hours and the amount of energy it took out of me for such little pay. I was not sleeping, going 40 or more hours on less than 4 hours of sleep. Like I said, it was rough, but worth it. I finally was able to focus my energy on teaching and education. I teach sociology and even with all the education I've taken in these past years I still feel totally inadequate for teaching it. I spend so much time researching and confirming what I think is the answer. Each class day I focus both on the topics of our book and a different sociologist. This means I spend a ton of time researching different sociologist and looking into how they link back to the topics that each class time focuses on. I also included at least two videos in each class, I try to include a recent current news story, and some type of class interaction time. This takes a massive amount of time. I use the book website and base my powerpoints on theirs but it still takes a large amount of time to rewrite, improve, and adjust them with all the aspects that I like to see in the class.
Well this is getting long and I've been trying not to fall asleep. It was a rough day, ripped my pants, forgot my phone, had no gas when I thought I did, forgot to pack my computer charger, at least 6 accidents on the way to work, yeah insane day. You know though, even with all the rough and insane that I must put up with, at the end of class, after the last student has left and before the first for the next class come in, there in that second I stop, look around, realize that I am living my dream and that no matter what life is good.
Good night, thanks for reading, and welcome to the wormhole.
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