School. Bleh.

Hello World!

Sorry for disappearing for a little while, but I’m making up for lost time and have a lot to share!

The semester has started at Tennessee Tech. I was really excited to see a lot of my friends and professors again and get back into my classes. That lasted for about thirty minutes on the first day. Now I’ve completely lost interest, am tired and ready for Christmas break. And I’m ticked off too because all of my teachers take attendance this semester. Confession: Since the start of my freshman year, I skipped classes in which the teacher did not take attendance at least once a month. Usually more. And then there were classes like Biology that I showed up to a twice the entire semester. Those were the days.

My juvenile delinquency professor is one of the nicest people I’ve ever met except whenever he talks it sounds like he needs to clear his throat. It really bothers me. Also, he has a strong passion -I’m gonna go ahead and call it an obsession- with cats. And I’m really not sure that it’s healthy. The man freakin’ loves cats. He has like 6 or 7. Thus, he kind of smells like a litter box. I mean that in the nicest way possible. He got choked up in class on the first day talking about one of his cats that had passed away a while ago and the signature line on his email is a quote attributed to Albert Einstein saying something about how music and cats are the two escapes from the miseries of life. I mean, that’s definitely my motto. I don’t know about you.

My theater class is in the nursing building. Naturally. I’m really enjoying it so far. The teacher is kind of a hippie but in a good way. If they ever had a movie version of The Magic School Bus with live actors, she would definitely be cast as the part of Mrs. Frizzell. Also, on the first day of class, I took two slices of pizza from the nursing student lounge when nobody was in there and ate them in my car. I apologize to all TTU nursing students.

My history class is in the basement of the women’s residence hall next to the laundry room because one of the buildings at Tech used for classroom space is being remodeled. There are no windows so it kind of feels like an interrogation room, especially when we’re having class discussions over stuff I forgot to read in the textbook. Also, it’s a small class that meets down there and I don’t think most people know about it, so every time I walk into the women’s dorm for class I feel like everyone thinks I’m some sort of pervert. Sigh.

On top of classes, I’m also working as an assistant editor for the school newspaper. I know that’s apparently not the coolest thing to do, but I mean I fell asleep at 10:00 last night watching TV Land. Let’s be honest, the role fits me. I can accept that. And yes, TTU friends- you’re school has a newspaper. It’s free. For the love of all that is good, pick up a copy. Please. Don’t do this on the day it comes out, but after it’s been sitting in the bins for a couple days you have my permission to grab a couple copies to use to line your household pet’s crate. Oh, and we have crossword puzzles! Take a look at my sweet cubicle:

Please note the Dollar Store American flag in the right hand corner of the picture. All of the other editors make fun of it. They're just jealous.

On an unrelated note, one of my roommates recently moved out to get his own place and another friend moved in, so during the course of all of this we’ve lost some furniture, acquired new furniture, and have just been doing some rearranging, and I was excited to find this at the store the other day for $10:

“Wow, look at that canvas with the names of all those cities painted on it!” I said to my equally naive friend. She liked it too, so I bought it. Well, as you probably immediately knew from looking at that picture, those are apparently not the names of cities written on the canvas, but rather various types of wine. I had no idea. I don’t drink. I could have sworn I’ve heard of at least 2 or 3 of these “places”. But anyway it was $10, I’ve lost the receipt, and is covering up a big nail hole- so for now, it stays. Maybe I’ll paint over it with the names of all my favorite soft drinks- Mountain Dew, Diet Coke, Orange Cream Soda, etc. That would be classy, right?

That’s all for now, friends. Hope you’re all having a good semester!

PS- The first issue of the newspaper for this year publishes Friday, the 16th. I’m excited to be contributing two columns in this first week and it would really mean a lot to me if you’d check it out! You can also find us online at www.tntechoracle.com