The Stars are Aligned--But uh oh, This is Kinda Long

This has just been one of the best weeks in a long time. I'm stoked about everything. Stoked is the word I choose because excited just doesn't cut it. You know it's good then. Here's my list of great things in the past 7 days:

1. I've decided to postpone my graduation until August. This will enable me to continue living in student housing until I get a job. Likely before August, but you never know. Otherwise, I would graduate in May and have to move out. My contract for Resident Teaching has a part of it that obligates me to stay in GF for one year IF there is a job for me. If not, I can go anywhere. BUT, that contract does not end until June 30. So that means I would move out in May, find an apartment, sign a lease, get a job, maybe have to move to another city all together if there is no jobs, get another apartment, and pay double rent. So. Student housing until August. Woo hoo!

2. This graduation issue also enables me to spread out my program of study. What that means is that I'll have two night classes now instead of three. Two next semester instead of three, and one in the summer along with my independent project. This is wonderful. You have no idea.

3. Another perk to this schedule change is that I am dropping a class called "Action Research" which is about as scary and intense as it sounds. It's basically a huge project and paper that is done on one of my students this year. Now, large papers are not a problem for me being a history major, but big research on real people is a little harder. (because history is about not real people. You know what I mean!) I am then replacing this class with one called "Intro to Research" which is as good and non-scary as it sounds. Again. You have no idea.

4. All the teachers, new teachers and resident teachers (me) got brand-spankin-new laptops for our personal/professional use. Need I say more?

5. I LOVE my job and the people that I get to work with this year. I am so excited about my room, my desk, my kids, and everything about it. I have no idea what I'm really supposed to do yet, but I have never been more excited. Well, I know that I'll be a special ed teacher, but what all that entails, I don't quite have down yet. But I'm excited to learn. Even to do the paperwork. Ask me how I still like it later, after I've done a bunch. But for now, YAY!

That's all I guess, but those are some pretty major things to be excited about. My universe is right. God has been so good and I have never started something as big as this with a better attitude. Those of you who know me know that I do not handle big, new things very well. Not well indeed.

I'm turning over a new leaf. Maybe. School (work) starts tomorrow and the honeymoon will be over. We'll see how long my enthusiasm lasts, but one would think it would last for the rest of this week at least. Wouldn't one? That's pretty significant.