I love school :)

So ...end of the first week of back to school as a full time student, my reading is all done - which doesn't sound nearly as big a job as it actually is with  courses in English literature - it is a very good thing that I like to read and am a fast reader! - and I've started on any and all assignments that we've been give details of ... none of them are due any time soon, but can't hurt to at least get going on them.

Can't find one of the two episodes I need of Sex and the City on Limewire, which is annoying. I don't want to buy a whole season of a show I don't watch to get one 30 minute episode to write a paper, but oh well.... my kid can have the DVDs when I'm done, I guess.  We are going to watch the episodes in class, apparently, but not until near the end of October. I prefer to get things done and out of the way long before they're due when I can.

Spent yesterday in student mode; readings, assignments and so on; now it is time to switch to teacher mode and make sure that I'm ready for the classes I'm teaching this week. One of them is new to me; always a lot more prep required the first time around. The other I've done several times but it's a non-credit course, and no textbook or anything, so I usually end up doing a fair bit of prep for that too, depending on the needs of the people in the course.  I always tell myself that I'm going to save all the things I end up doing up for the course and just re-use them, but it never seems to work that way - I'm just not that organized, and besides, I get bored!

Which is why I occasionally end up writing silly little poems rather than doing the work I'm supposed to be doing. Like this one:

My paperclip just became

A bicycle and rode away

On a sheet of yellow lined paper

Leaving me, once again,

Helpless.