And we will journey among the stars

It's been a while hasn't it Dreamwidth? I guess that's mostly due to real life hitting me in the face and hitting me hard.

First thing's first though. School has been going really well thus far. I have A's in all of my classes, and my practicum supervisors love me. For those that don't know, practicum is basically an internship for education majors. NKU has three consecutive semesters of this--the admissions practicum (what I am in now), and two professional semesters--all of which lead up my last semester of college where I will be student teaching. Anyway, it's all going well and it all just furthers my belief that I was meant to teach.

On the not so positive side of things, I just got a dog. Now, some of you might be saying "But Crystal, that's kind of awesome." And it would be...If my mom hadn't decided that we had to get rid of her. This is because Virgil, our dachshund, is jealous and antagonizes her--and he finally pushed her enough that she nipped at him during a play fight. He wasn't hurt but it freaked my mom and brother out enough that they demanded I get rid of her...The kicker is that the older lady that gave her to us just asked if we could make sure she sees her again before she dies...I...feel terrible. Especially since I love Roxy so much already.

My mother has also brought up some delightful curve-balls of judgement. She says I have no human connections with anyone or anything because I "love" my computer too much. I'm sorry then that most of my friends aren't in Cincinnati, and that the internet is the main way we keep contact because you are a freak that monitors who I call and when and for how long. I'm sorry that you have told me before that I wasn't allowed to bring "those people" into your house when it came to my gay friends. I am so damn sorry that you are such a creeper that you stalk my friends facebooks and that I am too embarrassed to introduce you to any of my other friends because of this outrageous behavior. And I am sorry that you asre so judgmental about who I choose to be friends with that I have decided it might be better for me not to have any friends at all.

Wow...this entry has no structure and has gone on some tangents but...it's an update at least?

I am currently sitting in my campus Starbucks, waiting to pass the hour that lies between now and my seminar. Today has started off fabulously so far.

I've had only one class so far, which was my modern American literature class. I have to say it will certainly be a class I will enjoy, if only for my professor. He's an older gentleman, of Chinese decent and I want to either adopt him or marry him I'm no sure which. He has an odd sense of humor, and laughs at all of his own jokes. He also can recite the opening chapter to Pride and Prejudice word for word--he demonstrated this fact to us in class. Also, the exams in this class? All open text, take-home, multiple choice exams outside of the fourth exam which is our final (and only) term paper. I think I'm in love.

The rest of today looks to be interesting too. As I said, in an hour I have a seminar. This class will be the time I will normally be in a high school for observation for the rest of the semester, but the first two classes are seminars so that we can be introduced to our faculty advisor from NKU, and so that we can be assigned to our schools that we will be observing at. I'm rather excited for that class. Then, to top off the day, I have my Japanese class. Last semester the topic was an intensive study for the JLPT, but this semester it's focused on Japanese folktales and myths with the final project consisting of translating one of our texts to English. It will be challenging, I'm sure, but I am also sure that it will be an interesting and fun class.

I'll likely be updating again later today when I get home with the final verdict of how the day went, but for now it is an awesome day.