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August 21, 2004"It was (going to be) a very good year..."
I got some very good news a few days ago--namely, that I'll be TAing a class all three quarters this upcoming school year. It will be a nice experiential addition to my high school teaching experience, the steady paycheck will mean that I'm eating mac and cheese all the time because I can't cook (and not because I'm too poor to diversify my menu), and let's not forget the tuition waiver.
This news came at a particularly opportune time, as I've been fretting over the next quarter's worth of tuition--due in no later than the 15th of next month. I'd been girding my financial loins to cough up an amount that represented a goodly chunk of my current savings. Instead, I now have the wiggle room to spend about a third of that amount into preventative repairs on my Saturn. I hate tossing down X number of dollars to maintain a car the Blue Book value of which is roughly equal to X, but it sure beats buying something else.
Apropos of nothing, I was scrolling through the new TA handbook (a PDF file) yesterday when I happened to notice a familiar name on the credits page. It seems the handbook had been edited and overseen by Melinda Messineo, an acquaintance of mine from back in my undergrad Chamber Singers days who's now teaching sociology at Ball State University (to my knowledge).
It's a small world after all; it's a small, small world. Hey, that's catchy...
Posted by patrick at August 21, 2004 10:43 PM
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