When daylight savings time came in late March all the clocks here at school went a little haywire. Most of them just had the wrong time on them, but it wasn’t just an hour off; these were really wrong. If it was supposed to be 12:30 in the afternoon, the clock said something like 9:45. I have no idea how they got like that.
But the truly bizarre one was in the classroom where I had Hebrew. Most minutes it would just stay frozen at the top of an hour. But every three or four minutes it would run through an entire hour in a minute. I saw people take three or four glances at it when it first started happening, and their mouths would drop. It was rather comical.
Anyway, I mention it because it seems a metaphor for the semester just finished.
I’m faced now with a summer “off” — although I have more to do than I can possibly get done. I feel like I’ve barely scratched the surface of the subjects I’ve just finished. And I would like to go back and reread all of the books and notes and really grind the stuff into my brain. I just realized yesterday that all of the subjects I just finished are not primarily content/informational classes; they are how-to type classes. So that means if I don’t practice the how-to part it will atrophy quickly.
But at the same time I want to start getting ready for the semester coming up in the Fall. I have some great classes and (hopefully) some great professors. It should be interesting. And I think I’ll get so much more out of them if I’m a little more prepared than I was before this past one.
Then there are some other things that I just want to get read over the summer for my own edification and enjoyment. How do I mix all that in? Sounds like I’m going to have to make some priorities and try to stay on top of things. I’ll write more if I can fi
It should be interesting all the same. Hopefully I’ll find some time to write about something sometime.
