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I really just dropped a line in on the 29th so that the whole month didn't go by without me saying anything. There were a few points when I opened up LJ to type something, but like even now, I've got other things to spend my time on. I'm in the middle of my morning coffee, which is kind of a timer; when the coffee is gone, it's back to work.
I'm working while I'm going to school. The person who did my scheduling changed and we're chronically understaffed, so not only is there literally nobody to replace me (days where I'm not working are just short-staffed, now), but I have to have the 'this is not my primary job anymore, classes take my top priority' conversation with a brand-new, significantly less-intelligent manager. I did an end run around the problem by having my supervisor change my schedule when the manager was out because a family member croaked.
In the last month, the manager was there about one work week. Really, I could go on and on, but I guess there's not much point. It's been a tremendous source of stress. I've managed to go from 5 days of work a week in the warehouse to 4, then finally to 3. I'm thinking about moving to seasonal entirely, but I'll probably wait a little longer for that.
I might do a full on work post, just like I used to. Won't that be exciting. It might let off a little steam, though.
Class is really engaging. I was right about some of my expectations and wrong about others, but I'm glad I'm back because there's really nowhere around here where I'm going to get the stimulus that I'm getting from my peers and professors. I mean, full stop. You can read all you want, but I've gotten almost no feedback from people and a fair amount of derision. That's not true everywhere, but it's true here, so for that reason alone, it's been extremely useful to put myself back in an academic environment. I feel like I'm behind others in my class in terms of my form - that is, I'm rusty and I've been academically isolated while a lot of my current peers have been effectively placed where they're at by a combination of mentors and momentum coming straight from undergraduate studies at this institution and others nearby. On the upside, the subject matter is not at all unfamiliar to me and even though academics and literature haven't been my sole preoccupation since I've left school, I've engaged with theory and trying to keep up in small ways for the time that I've been gone, so things that are new and difficult for some of the students are ideas I'm already comfortable with.
I'm working while I'm going to school. The person who did my scheduling changed and we're chronically understaffed, so not only is there literally nobody to replace me (days where I'm not working are just short-staffed, now), but I have to have the 'this is not my primary job anymore, classes take my top priority' conversation with a brand-new, significantly less-intelligent manager. I did an end run around the problem by having my supervisor change my schedule when the manager was out because a family member croaked.
In the last month, the manager was there about one work week. Really, I could go on and on, but I guess there's not much point. It's been a tremendous source of stress. I've managed to go from 5 days of work a week in the warehouse to 4, then finally to 3. I'm thinking about moving to seasonal entirely, but I'll probably wait a little longer for that.
I might do a full on work post, just like I used to. Won't that be exciting. It might let off a little steam, though.
Class is really engaging. I was right about some of my expectations and wrong about others, but I'm glad I'm back because there's really nowhere around here where I'm going to get the stimulus that I'm getting from my peers and professors. I mean, full stop. You can read all you want, but I've gotten almost no feedback from people and a fair amount of derision. That's not true everywhere, but it's true here, so for that reason alone, it's been extremely useful to put myself back in an academic environment. I feel like I'm behind others in my class in terms of my form - that is, I'm rusty and I've been academically isolated while a lot of my current peers have been effectively placed where they're at by a combination of mentors and momentum coming straight from undergraduate studies at this institution and others nearby. On the upside, the subject matter is not at all unfamiliar to me and even though academics and literature haven't been my sole preoccupation since I've left school, I've engaged with theory and trying to keep up in small ways for the time that I've been gone, so things that are new and difficult for some of the students are ideas I'm already comfortable with.