College!!!

Yes, this post will be about college, as the title suggests. It'll be rather boring.

Spring semester started on the 17th, three days after I arrived home from my wonderful vacation in South Carolina, so I wasn't really looking forward to it--I got used to not having anything to do and just relaxing. I don't remember the last time I felt so relaxed. Maybe before I had a job? And seeing that I haven't been jobless since October of 2002 (when I got my first real job), it's been awhile...

Anyways, this is how my school schedule:

*Mondays
6-7:50pm Lifetime Wellness
*Tuesdays and Thursdays
3:30-5:20 Spanish
6-7:15 Literary Analysis
*Wednesdays
6-8:45 Intro to Women Writers: Literature of the Holocaust

All night classes! To some people, that might seem crazy but to me it's wonderful! I actually feel like I'm in college (other than in Spanish due to some loud and annoying chick). That's one thing that I don't like about Parkside [a lot of people will actually tell you this]; it feels like an extension of high school and I was over the high school experience before I even graduated. And all of my classes are very interesting (other than Spanish). Lifetime Wellness forces me to workout and be healthy, I even started dieting this week and it has been going fairly well. Although, I am only on my third day and yesterday I fulfilled a craving for chocolate, but i did it without going over my calorie limit! I haven't started working out yet, but I will start that next week. Spanish is Spanish, a language I do not like, but this semester I'm creating a little group to talk to and work with in class. I loved learning Italian in high school, but when I took it at Parkside, I regressed because the professor was TERRIBLE so now I'm taking Spanish to fulfill a foreign language requirement when I just should have put up with the professor and be done with it already. My literary analysis professor is awesome, the only problem is he's too into philosophy. We're reading more philosophical essays rather than stories and I discovered last semester that I am not fond of philosophy (or biology, or politics, or Spanish, basically all the classes I took other than for my major requirements). But, the professor reminds me of Harry Goldenblatt from Sex and the City (Charlotte's second husband). He is bald, has a goofy grin, talks very similar to the way Harry does, and is Jewish but he converted to it.

And then there's Literature of the Holocaust. I've only had two classes so far and it's already intense. Amazing and intense. It's such a hard subject to teach and learn about, especially with a Jewish professor (she was actually born a Jew, racially and religously--if that makes sense). It's a three hour class but it goes by in a heartbeat and it's so challenging intellectually and emotionally.

On a different note,
I am working less this semester and taking less credits to hopefully do better than I did in the fall. It's also because my job is stressing me out and I would like to be there as little as possilbe. But, it isn't all playtime for me--I am going to be a nanny to Faith and Audrey Marschel on Mondays and Tuesdays (okay, okay, it will be playtime then). I'm excited for that because Faith is so much fun to be around and I haven't been able to bond much with Audrey yet.

I want to have a more positive outlook on {my} life and I think I'll actually be able to accomplish that before this school year is over!