I've moved!
Just a quick post to say that Jess and I have moved to a very nice apartment in St. Paul that I LOVE. We have no internet access right now (won't be able to get that hooked up until a week from tomorrow), so I won't be blogging for a while. Wow, I hope I can get caught up in my Women's Studies class, do my syllabus for the (new) class I'm teaching, and get all this other stuff done by the 20th. Yikes. I feel like I'm going to have to work 14-hour days for the next two weeks. On top of all that, I'm really homesick. I've decided that I'm going to try to find work in the south after I finish my degree--the other day when my mom took me to Birmingham to the airport, I was nauseous in the car during the entire drive. As soon as my mom drove away, I started bawling and didn't stop for a good hour and a half. Ugh, I'm not happy to be back here. Is this what burnout feels like? I have so much to do and no desire to engage any of it.
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Hurrah for your fab new place! Sorry you're feeling overwhelmed. I dunno about the homesickness... maybe you're just not cut out to be a Minnesotan? I mean that in a good way, lol. Think of how many people are glad they don't live here! :-P Anyway, it's not for ever, and you don't have that long to go before you're done. When you're teaching down in Alabama in a few years, you can look back on your crappy Minnesota apartment experiences and laugh. Or shudder, as needed.
And remember, "keep your stick on the ice--I'm pulling for ya." [/phallic Red Green platitudes]
:) Chris
these things pass
home sickness will go away eventually. home will be where you live instead of where your parents live and such. but I think everyone goes through that period after a few years where they don't really like living where they live and want to go somewhere else. i see this in academia quite a bit. but you saw those comm jobs i posted on air-l, virginia tech is in the south 'technically'. but anyway, just relax a bit, have fun where you are, because eventually you won't be there anymore.
I know how you feel.
Congrats on the new move.
I just got back from watching the new film Big Fish. Watching it made me even more homesick for Spanish Moss, sweet tea, and my family.
It's always hard adjusting to being so far away, especially after being home for an extended amount of time.