The Bandwagon

Welcome! You've found the spot where I/we update you/y'all on what's new in our lives. Pepsi? Check. School? Check. Fumbles and blunders? Check. Read on...

Yeah, I have MySpace and Facebook and email addresses galore. So why am I blogging? For me, it's therapy without the price tag. Consider this:

Right now, I have a regular, 40-hour a week job working with first-generation, low-income and disabled college students. I make sure they stay in school, do what they're supposed to do and help them where I can. It's stressful but rewarding and I'm glad I do it. On the 28th of October, I will celebrate my 5th anniversary with Johnston Community College (JCC) and I'm honestly looking forward to the next 5. For now.

Also, I teach a Student Success & Study Skills course to 25 students twice a week at JCC. It's a class that's required for graduation, so I get the expected lack of enthusiasm and stinky attitude that come along with required classes. My class is divided into almost two entirely different generations, but that's another story for another time...

And, if that amount of time-spent-in-a-school weren't enough, I also am in graduate school. I attend East Carolina University part-time as a master's degree student in English - Technical & Professional Communication. I alternately love and hate it. I love that I'm a DE (online) student and that I rarely, if ever, have to travel to campus, which is over an hour away from home. But I hate that I've only ever spoken to one of my professors and I've never laid eyes on any of them. I've been in school over a year now with many of the same students and we've also never gotten a chance to meet. Maybe one day...perhaps at graduation? I'm hoping to finish up next fall, but my plans always have a way of working themselves into a knot, so we'll see.

Enough for now. I've joined the bandwagon and I'm glad. If you're reading, I hope you're glad, too.