All of a sudden, I knew it was Fall.
You never know when you have the last good day of Summer. You know it's coming quickly, but until that first day of Fall weather hits, you just have to try to enjoy the warm days as much as you can. Fall came to Minneapolis this week. It went from mid-70s to 50s just like that. Today at the department picnic I had a sweater and a jacket on and was still cold! It's funny, when it's 50 in March it's a heat wave; today....I was freezing. As much as I do enjoy fall, it's depressing to think that I won't be able to walk outside in a t-shirt again for 8 or 9 months. Cue my perpetual state of being cold.
Okay, okay. There are some really great things about Fall. For instance, I am SO excited about apple cider. SO EXCITED. And apple crisp and apple sauce and apples. And even though you can make pumpkin flavored things any time of the year--pumpkin pie, pumpkin cookies, pumpkin cakes, and of course just pumpkins (which you cannot get anytime of the year). Leaves change and that's always really pretty until you realize that part's over too. Other good things about Fall? Football? Well, yeah I guess. Oh---new tv shows! The last season of Grey's starts in a couple weeks! And if we're considering it Fall from now on, My Birthday! MY BIRTHDAY IS THIS FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 19TH in case you were wondering :)
Onto other subjects... My second week of classes went well. I actually did 3 fun things this week. I have been telling people that I am only allowed one fun thing a week. For the past three weeks that has been dance on Wednesdays, so if I wanted to try dance another night I would have to skip the Wednesday gig. However, this week I went to trivia with Meghan and her friends on Tuesday, dance on Wednesday, and went to see The Fault in our Stars at a discount movie theater on Thursday---3 fun things! And I still managed to get my work done. Who said grad students can't have fun?! This week I probably shouldn't do that so I can do more than the minimum though :) Plus, I have to plan the prep stuff for our discussion sections for next week, so I have a couple more things.
Btw, my first discussion sections went pretty well. The first week was mostly just introductions. It was interesting to learn why everyone was taking the class (Intro Soc is a prerequisite for a lot of programs---sports management, nursing, need it for new MCAT section) and what they were most interested in learning about. The Monday section wasn't very talkative when we started discussion but I'm hoping it was just the first week trying to figure out how everyone fits in and what is expected of them. My Wednesday section was actually a little more talkative which I thought was strange because it is at 8am whereas my Monday section is at 10. TAing is a lot of work, especially planning for the discussion sections which I know I spend too much time on.
I also spend ALOT of time reading for theory. Marx and I have gotten pretty buddy buddy in the past two weeks ;) Tomorrow I'll spend a few hours at the theory reading group and then have to come home and watch a two hour lecture on Marx's Capital. Fun fun. It's really never ending though. I read over the weekend for Tuesday's theory class, then have to respond to (or write) blog posts on Monday, then look over my notes Tues before class. Meanwhile, I will hopefully have started reading for Thursday before Tuesday's class so I can respond to (or write) blog posts on Wed and have a lively discussion on Thursday.
Things to look forward to for next week:
You never know when you have the last good day of Summer. You know it's coming quickly, but until that first day of Fall weather hits, you just have to try to enjoy the warm days as much as you can. Fall came to Minneapolis this week. It went from mid-70s to 50s just like that. Today at the department picnic I had a sweater and a jacket on and was still cold! It's funny, when it's 50 in March it's a heat wave; today....I was freezing. As much as I do enjoy fall, it's depressing to think that I won't be able to walk outside in a t-shirt again for 8 or 9 months. Cue my perpetual state of being cold.
Okay, okay. There are some really great things about Fall. For instance, I am SO excited about apple cider. SO EXCITED. And apple crisp and apple sauce and apples. And even though you can make pumpkin flavored things any time of the year--pumpkin pie, pumpkin cookies, pumpkin cakes, and of course just pumpkins (which you cannot get anytime of the year). Leaves change and that's always really pretty until you realize that part's over too. Other good things about Fall? Football? Well, yeah I guess. Oh---new tv shows! The last season of Grey's starts in a couple weeks! And if we're considering it Fall from now on, My Birthday! MY BIRTHDAY IS THIS FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 19TH in case you were wondering :)
Onto other subjects... My second week of classes went well. I actually did 3 fun things this week. I have been telling people that I am only allowed one fun thing a week. For the past three weeks that has been dance on Wednesdays, so if I wanted to try dance another night I would have to skip the Wednesday gig. However, this week I went to trivia with Meghan and her friends on Tuesday, dance on Wednesday, and went to see The Fault in our Stars at a discount movie theater on Thursday---3 fun things! And I still managed to get my work done. Who said grad students can't have fun?! This week I probably shouldn't do that so I can do more than the minimum though :) Plus, I have to plan the prep stuff for our discussion sections for next week, so I have a couple more things.
Btw, my first discussion sections went pretty well. The first week was mostly just introductions. It was interesting to learn why everyone was taking the class (Intro Soc is a prerequisite for a lot of programs---sports management, nursing, need it for new MCAT section) and what they were most interested in learning about. The Monday section wasn't very talkative when we started discussion but I'm hoping it was just the first week trying to figure out how everyone fits in and what is expected of them. My Wednesday section was actually a little more talkative which I thought was strange because it is at 8am whereas my Monday section is at 10. TAing is a lot of work, especially planning for the discussion sections which I know I spend too much time on.
I also spend ALOT of time reading for theory. Marx and I have gotten pretty buddy buddy in the past two weeks ;) Tomorrow I'll spend a few hours at the theory reading group and then have to come home and watch a two hour lecture on Marx's Capital. Fun fun. It's really never ending though. I read over the weekend for Tuesday's theory class, then have to respond to (or write) blog posts on Monday, then look over my notes Tues before class. Meanwhile, I will hopefully have started reading for Thursday before Tuesday's class so I can respond to (or write) blog posts on Wed and have a lively discussion on Thursday.
Things to look forward to for next week:
- I'm attending a dance performance as a requirement for my human rights class on Friday (MY BIRTHDAY). I'm interested to see how human rights themes are expressed through dance, so you can anticipate a discussion about that next week.
- Birthday Activities (whatever they may be)
- My first payday
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