Happy Holidays everyone!
I hope everyone’s having a wonderful break!
Since I’m so busy during the school year, I am very terribly bored an unadjusted when I come home from break. I’ve been sleeping a lot, but I have also been very productive! I’ve read 5 books (and am currently working on three more), edited two papers I need to send off to grad schools, and wrote the remaining 8 personal statements and a new teaching philosophy paper. After all this is done, I still find time to work almost every day and shopping occasionally.
The novels I am reading are mostly classical ones, like ones in the literary canon or ones that are on the 100 must-reads before you read type. I’ve been reading from one of my class anthologies and have been getting ready for next semester! There’s not too much pre-reading I can do though—some of my classes do not have their books posted yet! Just as well though, I’m enjoying my fun-I don’t have to think about them too hard-reads and I definitely enjoy the mindless movies I’ve watched on Netflix for the last couple of weeks. It’s going to be hard to adjust back to school mode in just a week and a half!
For the actual holiday, I took a day off from busy work and went to volunteer at the soup kitchen I’ve been helping with for the past four years. Each year is a rewarding experience, but I definitely think this year was the best. This year, I was a greeter and part of the hospitality committee. I had the pleasure of meeting each and every one of the dinner guests and seeing their charisma and high spirits on Christmas, despite their current life situations. Some stories break my heart year after year, but I know that I am helping them by coming to volunteer again and again.
I am getting VERY close to being done with all of my applications! All I need to do is pay the ridiculous application fees and spend a couple hours tying up loose ends of paperwork! It’s weird to think that my fate lies in these applications, but it’s almost completely true! I’ll find out by next April-May what I am going to be doing and where I am going to be living come August!
Back to my novels and my daily nap!
