posted 2005/08/21 at 19:36
Over three months of no classes, no work, no (real) responsibilities ... it all ends today. I'd thought that today would be a day where I'd be eager to go and cram a whole bunch of stuff in before tomorrow, but I've been spending most of the day just lazing in bed and surfing a bunch of silly Websites. Well, it's not like I'll have much time for that over the next sixteen weeks, so maybe I am putting my time to good use here today.
I actually start the day tomorrow with the class I'll be teaching. Normally I'd probably be really nervous about this, but after all the personal changes I've been through these past couple of weeks, it just doesn't seem like such a big deal to me. If anything, hearing all the other TA's talk about their plans for their classes this semester has me more convinced than ever that I'm on the right track with what I have planned for my course.
One of the issues I've been dealing with in regards to all the personal changes I've made recently is that even though I like that I have a newfound confidence, I've always felt like confidence was largely indistiguishable from arrogance. I'd like to project a certain measure of confidence, but of course I don't want to project any arrogance. Ah, I'll figure it out here soon enough, I'm sure.
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