Divisions and Precisions

October Already?

As I was leaving work yesterday, my new boss said, "Wow, today's the last day of September!" It hadn't dawned on me. I've already been in school for a month? It feels like things have just gotten started. Midterms are in a couple weeks, from the looks of my syllabi.

I have such a love/hate relationship with the entire month of October. I love fall. I hate fall. And for me, October is about as fall as you can get. September's still too summery on occasion, and November ends up wintery by Thanksgiving. But October is pure fall. (And that reminds me, I need to change the graphics around here when I get home this afternoon--I'm currently sitting in one of EMU's computer labs.)

See, fall makes me nervous. If you've been following this journal for a while, you know this already. For a couple of years running, I could count on a major depression every May and every October. It was regular enough to keep a calendar by. I never figured out why, although to be honest, I never really tried that hard. This fall, aside from worries about being underemployed, I'm happy. I'm soaking up everything about being in school again, even down to having a job where I occasionally have to fold and staple large numbers of things--which, come to think of it, I had to do periodically at my old job. Like Brand said, it beats gutting fish. No offense to anybody who works at a fishery, of course.

The best part about my new job is getting there in the mornings. Mornings are starting to get cool here, and just lately we've had a string of mostly sunny days. I'm actually enjoying taking public transportation to work, having a few moments to sit outside in cool sunshine, letting the air wake me up. My boss is almost how I sometimes imagine I'll be in another 30-40 years: smart, funny, committed to what she's doing, and alone but involved. I was also lucky enough to find a job that doesn't require me (most of the time) to simply be a brainless drone for a couple hours at a stretch.

Speaking of that, I've got a job interview for another job here on campus in just a few minutes. I should take off and get upstairs.

Posted by Lisa at October 1, 2002 03:00 PM