posted 2005/02/25 at 16:20
About twenty minutes ago I was supposed to start a meeting with a professor over a writing contest I'm helping to run this semester (as part of my Research Assistant duties; this is the same contest I won $200 in a couple of years ago, but it's only for undergraduates), but the professor hasn't shown up yet. I have to run some errands today -- namely getting birthday presents for the brother-in-law, as his birthday is this coming Wednesday -- so I'm not sure how long I'll be able to stay up here in my office. I hate coming to campus on a Friday as it is, especially when I don't get paid until next Friday, but at least I can use the time here to work on homework and write here.
Sometimes I wonder if I'm bipolar. I've been really depressed these past few days, but whenever I'm writing to people online, my mood seems to go up a bit. Then again, there's something about talking with all my new friends in Cincinatti that seems to fulfill me in a way that I'm just not getting from talking to my friends here in Toledo. Given the big shake-ups that happened the last time I went down to Cincy, part of me wonders if I'll go down there at the end of Spring Break and just not want to come back up here. Of course, my lack of money to get my own apartment/buy my own food kind of snuffs the flame of that possibility out before it even gets a chance to flicker.
I have to say that I'm giving serious thought to running for President of Spectrum again when elections are held in April. It's not that I don't think the people who took over from me are doing a bad job, but I really miss having my hands at the controls of the group. Especially after my previous leadership experiences (in the pre-.org days) turned out so poorly and I did so well running Spectrum last year, I kind of wish I could keep helping Spectrum in as direct a way as possible. If nothing else, our current Vice-President will be leaving UT at the end of the semester, so there will be a vacancy there that I might be able to take over. Still, given all my responsibilities as a graduate student (especially since I'll start teaching in the fall) and the possibility that I might hear some decision as to the university's decision to recognize UT Un/Gagged soon, I might not have the time I need to do those things.
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