A New Day
I have to tell you all why I haven’t been blogging as often as I usually do. I just started teaching and tutoring full time and it’s a lot more work than I thought it would be. It’s also very tiring. However, I do love it. I just need to get used to it. I might be blogging a little less, but I have a best of blogs book that should be coming out soon if anyone is interested.
There are a lot of exciting things going on in my life right now. Someone just asked to interview me to hear my life story after reading my blog on a podcast, I will post it on my blog as soon as I do it. I also applied to do a Ted Talk, we will see if they accept me.
I’m also just really energized by teaching, I do like it a lot better than tutoring. Probably because I like the sound of my own voice. Which I have to admit, I do. But I also love inspiring kids to write and I love having deep discussions about meaningful subjects.
Many of those subjects have to do with identity I have realized, especially in my Comp 1 classes. My upper-level classes are also talking about really interesting things like argument as conversation and the existence of truth. I love the philosophy and psychological factors of these fascinating subjects.
The cool thing about writing is that you have to write about something, so why not write about the questions that plague our minds? I always tell my students that the questions are sometimes more important than the answers. In fact, we are doing an entire paper in my argumentative writing class on writing and exploring questions.
As much as I adore creative writing, academic writing I have found can be just as exhilarating. And I think teaching English in college is what I was meant to do, besides writing. This is it, this is the day job I have been searching for all my life. This is where I am in my element.
But I have to say that I miss this, getting my thoughts down on my blog. I miss discovering what’s going on inside me. Part of my transformation and healing over the past year has been from writing. And it has been a year on September 1st that I have not been depressed after two decades of being in and out of depression. Halliluhia!!!!
I thank the gods for that one. But I also thank myself. I have to give myself credit for doing the work. And now my journey is changing a bit, for this last leg of weight loss, I’m doing weight watchers and it’s wonderful so far!
I’m doing fab even though I’m a little stressed and a little tired, but I’m happy. I have a ton of papers to grade this weekend, but that’s OK, I’ll manage, and I will thrive. I know I can do this. And I’m planning on moving into my own place in about six months.
Yay!!!!
I hope you're having a good day!
nina