There’s not much to write about. I have an addiction to pinkberry. I know it’s not real frozen yogurt but can’t bring myself to care.
I find it a bit amusing to what lengths people will go to to fix poor grades. We got our first paper back from the professor and a 4.0 GPA student threw a snit fit. It was tense in that classroom! She apparently wanted to kill him, she was going to go to her counselor and the head of the English department. I’ll admit I put more effort into the paper than usual and managed to scrape by with a B but nobody got below a C. It’s not as if half the class failed. Still, if you’re going to follow through with a PhD in English you need good grades. I can understand the shock of getting a poor grade but don’t quite understand going so far as talking to the head of the English department when it was not entirely impossible to get an A. It was only difficult.
Entitlement issues? I have a 4.0 so it’s impossible for me to be anything but perfect issues? I’ll be happy to get my BA and move on, fuck the 4.0.
Maybe the lack of ambition is at the heart of my problems. I still don’t have a clear idea of what’s to come after I get my BA. I don’t want to go further in Creative Writing – MFA – because that leads to teaching and I have absolutely no interest in teaching.
I’m sorry I hope you will no soon in a greater detail what direction you want to go and what is right for you. It’s never an easy thing, but I am sure whatever happens you will be fine.
you reminded me of frozen yogurt goodness all over again :[. it’s been too long since i had some.
similar way with the post-graduation stuff. the course outline is changing next year and might be able to put more time into an advanced version of this course, but beyond that is where it gets tricky. out of the confines of the classroom and into something resembling a career feels like such a crazy jump, especially since being on disability. don’t know what it’s like for you, but the job world seems so foreign.
Kya – I hope so, too. I’ve considered various career choices. I’m the only one in the family not going into respiratory therapy. Which is good considering I wouldn’t work well doing hands on in the medical field. Still, it’s very frustrating.
Phil – It’s so good. My favorite is plain with fresh raspberries and strawberries.
The job world does seem foreign now. I worked for about two and a half years at one job and several months at another but haven’t done anything resembling that since I quite two or so years ago. It wasn’t my idea to quit or go on disability but now that I am on it working in a career seems a bigger hurdle than if I’d remained in the work force. Even if only as a barely above minimum wage movie theater worker. I know I’m not going to make money writing short fiction or poetry so I’ve been worrying about what comes after.
I hope you figure it out. I know I’ve been looking up potential careers connected to my major, just keep coming up short on something I can see myself doing until I retire…