bad omens

day 2 of school went like this:
i woke up to a picture falling off my wall at ten til 8 am. worst way to wake up, and usually it's not a good omen when you wake up like this, but i stayed positive.
i drove to school for my first time, having a parking permit and all, and found a spot rather quickly (surprise, people don't take classes at 9 am). i did leave my apartment at about 8:30--> class at 9:30. therefore, i was about 45 minutes early, which meant i would be sitting in the hallway for another 30 minutes. not the most fun i've had all day, but it wasn't bad. i didn't talk to anyone during this time; no one really does talk this early in the morning. it's a well-known social law. don't be a bother before lunch time. something i'm going to have to get over once teaching; kids don't quite understand the social laws.

anyways, human development started promptly at 9:30. as if geography wasn't bad enough; as if i couldn't be around enough freshmen. out of 72 people in my human development class, 44 of them are freshman. and i am one out of three seniors. this is gonna be a fun semester. the teacher is nice. all of my teachers are obviously very well educated in the education field itself. they're serious about teaching and do so with all they have. i appreciate that. we began class with a like "get to know you" activity. this was kind of gut wrenching and cheesy, but you know, it happens. it was a grid set up like Bingo with each square stating something like:

• read 3 cups of tea
• know who G. Stanley Hall is
• know what a zygote is
• born in denton
• have children
• can't roll your tongue
• text while drive

and we had to go around the room and initial other people's squares on what we fit into. this didn't really serve the purpose it was supposed to because i don't remember anyone's name, and i'm sure no one remembers my name. oh well, but it got us talking. next she talked about the syllabus for the next hour. it dragged on and on and on. this class screams: no fun. firstly, i hate group projects and this class is about 40% teamwork. secondly, there is a lot of work that goes into this class, especially for a freshman class. but the one positive so far is that half of it is online. that means we only meet once a week. idk yet if that once a week is going to be monday or wednesday. i'm hoping monday because i would only have one class on mondays. class took up the whole 90 minutes which is always suprising on the first day. another bad omen.

after this class, i had an hour break before my next and final class for the day. so i did what every student on campus does during their lunch break. i went and sat in the campus chat. i hate sitting in there alone like a big ol' loser. but luckily this time, i had a magazine to read. how so many people were in there doing homework already, i don't even know. it's only the third day of school, people. give it a rest.

well then i made the trek over to Wooten Hall, the history building where my elem. math class is (makes sense, right?). first off, that classroom is way too small for the number of students. i have a huge phobia of tight, small, overcrowded places - also known as claustrophobia. it's gonna take a lot of happy thoughts and breathing exercises to get me through that class every day. it does help that the teacher is funny. and a female. it's not too often that female math teachers exist. in fact, that was one of the common math myths she dispelled for us today. she really does have a lot of pride in math and teaching, so i think i have a good chance of learning a lot in this one. let's see, the teacher started throwing bags of counting cubes and towers around.  and when i say throwing, i mean chunking like a mad woman. she was throwing one over in my general direction. it was actually coming right for either my face or the girl's behind me. i'm not sure what was happening, but i just reached up real quick and caught the sucker. it was the one time in my life that i have ever possessed cat-like reflexes (probably another bad omen when the teacher is throwing stuff at students on the first day). anyways, we did a little exercise with these, and now we have to complete homework. ugh on homework.

i am really glad i invested in that planner. it is going to be my saving grace this year. i have continued to keep track of everything and will continue to put my life into that little spiral bound book.

all in all, my hypothesis of the semester is that it is going to be very, very busy.