a raw rant of sorts....

A friend of mine asked me tonight, "so how are you?" My response surprised me...it went something like this... "I'm good, life is crazy, and insane, wonderulf and busy. After Saturday I won't know what to do with myself, I'm ready for Christmas and the LONG 17 day break from school, everything has changed but yet everything has stayed very much the same, (i.e. I'm getting restless but not entirely for sure why.)"

-a little more info - - the part about Saturday.... I have a 15 page paper due on Wednesday (can you say procrastinator? I've started writing it, I'll get it done, I've just had better things to do, like hang out with people! Who am I to sacrifice time with people for writing a paper?!?) Anyway along with the paper, I have to give a 10 minute presentaion over my "research findings." I'm not entirely sure how much my professor will appreciate this but this is what my research has shown....

1. I am SO ready to be done with my master's, it's not even funny. Whoever encouraged me to start working on it my first year of teaching was wise even though right now I'm pretty sure I am crazy. I am grateful for their wisdom and will be even more grateful when this is all said and done.


2. May 2009 can not come soon enough.


3. I need a break from being a student... (21 years of this is enough... I don't know how doctors do it....but Dr. Call does have a nice ring to it, okay not so much!)


4. I do enjoy learning but not when it is according to someone else's syllabus.
   
5. I really do like my job and through this whole master's process I have come to appreciate where I work, who I work for, and some of those I work with much more than I thought I ever would.

I am going to attempt to tie my findings into my "research on curriculum" blah blah blah... it's really not as terrible as I am making it out to be but I sure do have a bad case of senioritis. But it will all be worth it... and one day in May this will be me!