27 (or prep.)

Classes taper off which means research mode is in full swing. Multiple interviews daily, literature reviews, proposal meetings...we have two weeks to get everything together. My final projects are:

ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY: THE VALUE OF POOP: BIODIGESTORS AND SUSTAINABLE WASTE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS
FIELD METHODS IN COMMUNITY HEALTH: PIROPOS: DEFINITIONS AND REACTIONS
DEVELOPMENT AND SOCIAL CHANGE IN COSTA RICA: DOROTHY ROCKWELL'S LITTLE BLACK BOOK: SCRABBLE IN THE QUAKER COMMUNITY

We have a huge community symposium on the 21st of April which will be bilingual and totallyyyyy overwhelming.


I also have to start getting my things together for next year. My class schedule for next semester should be as follows:

MGT 245 M 6:30-9:00 (Organizational Behavior)
MGT 247 MWF 10:30-11:20 (Introduction to Human Resource Management)
MGT 210 TUTH 10:00-11:15 (Financial Management)
ART 382 TUTH 12:00-1:15 (Visual Remedies and the Consolation of Philosophy-Topics in Early Modern Art)
ART 204 TU 6:30-9:00 (Digital Imaging I)

And that means Spring semester is:
ART 230 (Sculpture I)
ART 268 (Early Renaissance Art)
MGT 231 (Introduction to International Business)
MGT 320 (Small Business Management) - I AM SO HAPPY MY ADVISOR CHOSE TO TEACH THIS AGAIN AND FOR MY LAST SEMESTER
MGT 375 (Strategic Leadership for the Arts Administrator)
MGT 380 (Strategic Management)

And I pray pray pray there will be no scheduling conflicts.

I really wanted six classes next semester but one just got switched back to spring semester. So just five for next semester, and six in the spring. I don't have a choice, really, and I'm bummed that teaching Connections is no longer feasible. I'm actually looking forward to getting back into the grind of my disciplines in the fall.

QUESTIONING MY CAPACITY.
I'm looking forward to, relatively, sacrificing all the extracurriculars I used to do to be an awesome profile student. I'll have class and I'll have a job. And maybe live off campus. I sent an email to Kate yesterday that said "I can't wait to come home to you," so we can have sewing projects and grow a garden and make our pancake breakfast with old bay potatoes and listen to records and sing cute acoustic music and snuggle and giggle in our nest of a bed and even if we don't live together just living and breathing in the same city as her will be enough to keep me fulfilled...

...and not be concerned with gender roles perpetuated in bar culture or discriminatory words begin thrown carelessly like a drunken game of darts. We have to pick our battles and I should realize I probably won't win this one here. So I try not to get wound up in it and find alternatives to these situations. Like wine and cheese parties at Michael and Kamila's when I'm not falling asleep, or dinners and movies at Mike's. I still go out and I still enjoy it but I'll be more at ease when my social nightlife has more options than those that revolve around a bar.


...but my afternoonlife revolves around delicious baked goods and reading at Dulce Marzo so I think I'll do that riiiiiiiiight NOW.