Tuesday, September 16, 2008

what to do?

I am watching hours of Star Trek and grading papers...how is this any different from China? If I could only go out for a little 10:30pm street food it would be just about right.

I need a new job. Even though I can kind of get into it, I just don't like teaching enough to have it be the only thing I'm doing. I've applied for a study abroad position at another college in Indy, which would allow me to give up teaching one of my night classes and take a Chinese class for free.

If that doesn't work out, I'm talking to a school in Ukraine. If I have to teach, I might as well do it in an interesting location. Still wish I could go to Turkey, but every connection I've tried to make there has lead to a dead end. And I still have part of me that wants to study Chinese in Chengdu next semester.

Grad school is something I'm trying not to think about. I know in my head I want a masters degree..but it's very vague. I still don't exactly know what I want my masters in... sometimes I really want to work in education and think about getting a proper teaching licence, then I want to go into international studies... but nothing is screaming at me.... You Have To Do This!!

All I really know about myself is that I never want children, I like techno music, I want more tattoos, I want to go swimming and spelunking all the time, and I don't want to live someplace for more than ten years except for maybe someday when I will retire to Costa Rica and go scuba diving everyday and write trashy romance novels about people with names like Clarissa and Sebastian. Where does teaching reading come into all of this?

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