I felt so honored to be a link on Sunday Girl's page, so I thought a new entry was necessary.
The last two weeks have been representative of the graduate school experience. No torn jeans, guitars, or coffee houses, but late nights, little sleep, and counting out nickels and dimes to buy coffee so I am alert enough to teach my lowly Theatre 100 students.
Highlights of the Quarter

1. Handing in my blood, sweat, and tears (draft of a chapter of my thesis) on recycled paper (old drafts of thesis) only to find out that my advisor dropped it and then not only put it back in the wrong order, but read the old drafts instead of the finely polished blood, sweat, and tears draft. Needless to say, he had a long list of revisions for me to do.

2. Laughing and mocking a student who asked me if I was putting together a review sheet for them. Hehe. I still think this is funny. Dumb freshmen.

3. A student wrote to me and said, do you have it in your heart to tell me what to study for my final? My answer: I have it in my heart but you have it in your notes.

4. Convincing a math major that yes, theatre is an integral part of his education.

5. My advisor told me I should be careful on how I use the term 'doubling' in my thesis. As I was doing some research in the Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance, I looked up 'doubling' and realized that he wrote the entry for it AND I was using the term completely wrong in my paper.

6. Coaxing my printer to print out my application materials that are due TOMORROW.