Stayin' Alive

I am still alive!

This semester has kicked my rear like no other semester before; all of the times I felt I was taxed for time back at NWC seems like a patty cake party in comparison. I came to the conclusion that I need to complain less, just buckle in, and have a good time 'tween semesters.

I think I'll like it here in Laramie. There's just enough western history, access to mountains and an urban setting (Denver,) and fast roads back to the places I am from. Laramie is a happy little hub. I also like that it's about the same age as Placerville, the place I'll always call home. Powell was nice, but it being founded in 1909, it seemed like a bit of a "whipper-schnapper" town. Plus, they have historic ghost tours around Halloween time, which is just boss. The ghost tours of Placerville were usually privately run by paranormal investigators who plug their book throughout. The ghost tour here features a hay ride, bad acting, and people earnestly trying to scare you while presenting a living history lesson. I am enamored with that sort of effort!

As for my first semester at "Yoo Dub," I had a hard time at first, as the professors are very... ah... established. They are the big boys of formal education, and they know it. As on the P'ville ghost tours, I was subjected to "I'm published" many times in the first two weeks of classes. I enjoy my German class immensely, as well as my science course, (the last one I'll ever take! No!). I am neutral about my lit. course; I learn a lot from it, but with an average of 100-125 pages to read a night, I am very ready for it to be done. My short story class is excellent for analysis of said literary form, but it lacks female authors, outside Eudora Welty.

Looking forward to next semester: book arts, German 1.2, literary survey, and finite mathematics. Optimism.