My free time is

SO over! Wow-the shock today at school. I'm still spinning from the workload this semester. Even for me the reading seems daunting. Professor for literary criticism told us the class was not hard it was "extremely hard"-yikes! Shakespeare-I have to memorize a sonnet (at 49 it's hard to remember people's names!) and also act out a scene from a play-besides reading 6 plays, writing papers, etc. And the fiction class-well let's just say I'm not ready to share my short fiction with them yet, but I have no choice. Workshopping my fiction will be sitting quietly while 19 other students comment on my piece-ouch!!
Why am I doing this? Oh yes, I love to write and I want that degree. Got to keep reminding myself before I freak out and drop those classes.
Back to the books for now.

Last night of freedom

to choose my own books. I feel so nervous about tomorrow. No classes with Nancy Stork as professor. No classes with Ivy. Back on Light Rail. Long day. What was I thinking? No, forget it-I am excited-it's just that that excitement is tinged with nervousness. It's not like last year-I know where I'm going-just that first day of school butterflies-way beyond what I'm going to wear. Because that of course is what I always wear to school anyway- t0 sweater and jeans-got to be comfy! Back to school and back to packing my lunch!

My last free weekend

until the middle of May. wow-these last 5 weeks have just flown by and I feel as if I have accomplished nothing or at least nothing that I wanted to. Maybe I just needed to relax and do nothing-if that is the case I accomplished my goal and did a very good job of it. Monday looms-a mere 3 days away. Time to get a few things done that I thought I would do:
Nic's Christmas letter, cleaning closets, finishing an essay, screenplay, etc... the list goes on.
I have 3 new classes to look forward to/dread. Literary Criticism, Shakespeare, Fiction Writing. I'm not sure which is going to be the class that I love or hate or is too hard. I am excited to be going to school only Mondays and Wednesdays with all 3 classes back to back.
So on my last Friday I will be working and meeting friends at Starbucks later. Melissa has been back at school for 3 weeks now-she still doesn't feel in the groove-how long will it take me?
Nic started new semester too. And he does seem to be growing up and getting it together but as a 13 year old this can all change later when I pick him up from school.
Back to school Monday-yikes!