Teaching assistant

So I met with the guy who I will be TAing for this semester. I'm pretty happy about this gig. I will be the teaching assistant for a Politics of Globalization class. Should be very interesting, and right up my ally. I get full credit for the class (I haven't taken it before) but I don't have to take any of the tests, I get to grade them! Ha! Bitches!

It is interesting, because this teacher is the guy who I fucking hated at the beginning of the semester because he was completely unwilling to work around my work schedule. It was funny because he knew I was pissed at him. He actually brought it up during the meeting in a off-handed way. I thought it was interesting that he invited me to TA for him despite knowing that I thought he was irritating at times! Ha!

I'm skinny

I just got back from Kung Fu class a little while ago. I love my Kung Fu class. I highly recommend something like it on a regular basis for anyone who needs to feel better about themselves. I left that studio feeling like I was on top of the world despite the fact that my teacher (sifu) told me that I looked like I lost a shitload of weight. He said it was going to take some time to recover and in the meanwhile I was going to have to just do soft forms. I guess the trip really took a lot out of me.

I feel like it wouldn't have been so bad if I had not had to do the couch surfing thing. I am super grateful for my friends being nice enough to let me stay with them for 2 whole weeks (big shout outs to Carl, Shari, and Vicky) but it was really grueling. First to hang out in Carl's dank basement while he smoked like a chimney and then to hang out at Vicky's place with her dogs that I'm allergic to. I think I was dealing the whole time with a case of Bronchitis and the scenarios I was in just made my lungs even worse.

It all really just makes me so grateful to be back in my own space where I can just kick back and relax and be myself in an environment that suits me.