genevieve is…

I’ve been reading bloggers posts of bad Cs travel experiences (here and here) and so I thought I’d be publicly thankful that traveling home from New Orleans was incredibly easy and uneventful.  I’ve traveled an inordinate amount this year, rivaled only by the other year of my life spent in a long distance relationship.  I know that year I flew 13 times…I haven’t really kept track this time around.

I have a personal preference for American Airlines, and the airline I loathe emphatically happens to be US Airways.  My one really sad travel experience was having a delayed flight that caused us to miss our connection to an international flight, thereby losing a day on an international trip.

I still like to fly, but if I’d had all those horrible experiences I certainly wouldn’t been looking forward to traveling either!

…at least for now.  The last 6 or so months have been pretty overwhelming.  It’s not so much starting the PhD that has been hard, but being on quarters has been really, really difficult.  Quarters are…intense.  Some of the other grad students seem to absolutely take it in stride, but I feel like I’m continually behind, never quite finished reading before a grad seminar, never responding to emails quickly enough, never starting paper research early enough, and never prepared enough to best teach a two hour long first year writing course.

This quarter started March 24, and I’m feeling less freaked out, particularly because I’m only taking one full-blown graduate seminar (the other class is shadowing a faculty member who’s teaching an undergraduate  course in preparation for teaching the same course in the future).  Also, I just got back last night from 4Cs, and putting that behind me is really a relief.

All that to say that I’m going to start writing here again, hopefully.  I doubt anyone is going to read this unless I actually request they do so, but out there in the interweb ether it goes anyway.  Hope things aren’t too crazy for you, interweb ether.