It's not the workload or anxiety over grades or anything like that. It's preparing to figure out who you're going to be. Can I get a teaching job? Can I even be a teacher? Will I ever move back to New England and have the homestead I've alway wanted? Will I someday get to go to farmer's markets and give tours of my farm to local home schooling families? Will my husband be able to get into grad school for psych? Will he still want to if he gets a teaching job and is able to make a difference in that way? And the biggest one of all: how do I help him get through his stress?
Speaking of which, I've been reading a lot of inspiring literature lately and I'm taking two absolutely fabulous classes. They are Modern British Novels and Women Writers with Prof. Rebecca Bratten Weiss. If for some reason you ever have a chance to go to a lecture by her or attend one of her classes, ABSOLUTELY DO SO WITHOUT A SECOND THOUGHT. Even if you're not into literature, her classes are engaging. She leads it with a lecture-style format but, preferring a circle and to also learn from her own course, she tries to initiate discussion. I don't think she could possibly know what kind of an influence on me she has had. She's probably had a part in my interest to be a teacher. My desire to always be a student and to go on learning has been reinforced by her example. Her insights and approach to topics has given me a model.
Anyway, as I was looking at the blogs I follow, I was reminded by one of them that I'd like to do a post about my five favorite novel heroines – I may do favorite women writers instead. Well, I'd like to do one or the other soon.
But, oops, that's all I have time for right now.
Read any good books lately? Tell me about them!