May 13, 2004

  • feeling fine...


    i got up at 4:50am this morning and have been up since, though I will probably soon be asleep.  just got back from the english department banquet--some pretty good chinese food for 3 bucks!--and having ice cream with the honey, sara, viola, professor crawford and her partner professor spector, and professor heineman.  it was fun chatting it up with my teachers; it reminds me how lucky i am to have professors that i can just chill with and who understand what's going on with my personal life as well as my academic stuff.  and guess what?  i got honorable mention in the english department contest for two categories:  poetry (which i so needed to validate myself as a poet) and critical essay (which makes me feel like i can do this final honors paper).  so i didn't get fiction or creative non-fiction, but that's all good.  fiction is my senior seminar project and my non-fiction poem is in the ignatian literary magazine.  whoo!  getting 2 honorable mentions was better than winning 1 (though 1 win and 1 honorable mention would've rocked, too ), plus i got 2 books:  "Good Poems" and "The Best American Nonrequired Reading."  for once, "not the best, but good in several" feels awesome.  man, i'm sad that i'm graduating in 9 days.  well technically, less than 9 days, more like 8 1/2 days.  it's scary.


    made a decision.  i will not do a real job-job this summer.  i will, instead, work for Dr. Fung as a research assistant/teaching assistant, possibly also work in the English Department office, and maybe be an RA whore to whomever else needs me.  i will also be working as a tour guide for the admissions office.  hopefully, i will be accepted into a San Francisco placement for Americorps and that runs from september to august (which has a good stipend and an education reward at the end of service).  i might try to do a second year or maybe a paid internship or work work.  i'm also seriously considering a child development associate degree, which i may be able to pursue while doing americorp.  it feels good not to be thrust into the job world right away and i'm happy to be able to hang around USF a bit more.  gosh i'm going to miss it here.