Yesterday!

I got up much earlier than I normally do - 6 AM. Didn't really get out of bed until 6:30, but I made sure to give myself that time. Showered, made myself pretty, and went out the door with an apple in hand to go to my first day of graduate school classes. I nommed my mini breakfast during my commute, which was surprisingly low on traffic until I got into town. But I managed to get to class a little early!

The first class was School and Society - I have a feeling I'm not going to enjoy this class. I generally don't like sociology courses. I participated and everything, but I think that class consists of a lot of people bullshitting and talking/arguing about things that are basically common sense. And there's a ridiculous amount of reading to do... Either way, I'll get through it.

After a quick solo lunch at a pizza place, I went to the library and read a little bit before my second class - The Adolescent Learner. That's going to be an interesting class. It's less about studying school as an institution (like my other class) and more about actual classroom stuff. Classroom management, educational psychology, theories of development... I'm pretty excited about it. The professor seems pretty cool, too. At least he made 3 hours go by relatively painlessly.

When I was all done with classes I headed to Cathy's house to pick her up so we could go see Iron Man 2. I was a little worried I'd be lost because I haven't seen the first one. I did sort of know the premise, though, so I was able to figure out what I was missing. Anyway, the movie was totally awesome! Cathy and I agreed that most of the fight scenes were weirdly short, though. But I didn't really care because RDJ kind of melts me into a puddle.

After the movie we hit a nearby diner for some food and to meet up with Cait. The lady at the diner was really nice and let us stay late - she even let Cait in after closing since we were totally unaware that the place was closing at 10 and she got there a while after us. We felt sort of bad just sitting there chatting when we were done eating so we left and went back to Cathy's house and chatted for a couple hours. That was really nice, to just hang out. I hadn't seen them since Spring Break and Cathy's leaving for California for the month on Saturday and Cait is leaving for Senegal for a YEAR. That's right. Pretty much all of my friends will not be anywhere near me geographically for quite some time. As depressing as that is, I guess it will give me time for all the reading I have to do for class... blah.

Anyway, tonight Cathy is coming over for dinner tonight and maybe my parents and I can convince her to come on vacation with us to Florida in August! But that's just about it for now. Till next time!

- Jill