You guys are awesome.  I knew I’d get some thoughtful feedback on the blogging issue.  Thanks, also, for the information on Philly.

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I signed up for a new blogring:  People Piss Me Off.  Why?  Because they do.  Well, it’s the truth.  I think that’s from my lack of understanding people.  I also signed up for it because it cracked me up.

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I’m registering for my fall classes today.  I’ve finally made it to the top of the registering list…which means I get to register before all of those junior, sophomore, and freshmen peons.  Heh.

Really what it means is that I get to get into the classes I want and not be waitlisted because someone who has more time than me is in the class.  That’s always nice.

I’m signing up for a class in rhetoric: language of struggle and another seminar class in linguistics.  In addition, I’ll be taking my foreign language requirement and my second to last class for my geology minor:  Planetary Geology.

I’m actually looking forward to it.  I don’t have that senioritis thing, yet, although I’ll be a three semester senior by the time I graduate next spring.  I’m still excited by school.

Part of it is, I think, that I feel I’ve found my calling.  I know what speaks to me.  I know what it is that I want to do…well, at least what I want to study.

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I’m bored with my job.  There are two very distinct reasons for this:  one, my boss is taking responsibilities away from me and two, I know this isn’t what I’ll be doing with my life.

I’m bothered that my boss is taking things away.  I’m the last person left over from the previous boss.  The new one has either fired or gotten people transferred out of this department and I’m the last one from the old “regime.”  When she takes responsibilities away from me, especiallys ones I enjoy, then I think I’m next on the list.  While I’m ok with that, I need this job until I graduate.  After graduation, I’ll be going into graduate school and can get a job with the university.  For now, though, I need this job and I can’t afford to have her push me out.

So, then, when I don’t have the same workload to do, I get bored which leads me to dreaming about my future in linguistics.  That makes me not want to be here even more.