New Chapters

By: Meradeth Houston on 9:21 AM

I wish I were writing about a new book I'm starting, or something writing related, but I'm not. Still, it's pretty big: I started teaching my first class at UC Davis today. Human Evolutionary Biology. Six weeks of total hell await me, with six hours of lecture a week, along with everything else, but it's what I've been aiming to do for ages. It's kinda strange to think that somehow I actually got here, knowing I've wanted to get here since I started college, and finally standing up in front of the class today and telling them all I'll be their professor. Total mind trip! And today's lecture sucked. Oh well, I was really nervous, and tomorrow will be better. I know it will. It's just one of those things I'm going to have to work toward.

Also, DH and I moved this weekend. We're now living on campus in married student housing, about a five minute walk from my building. The apartment smells funny and we have WAY too much stuff (books, mostly, no surprise there). But, it'll do. And I'm close enough to the lab to get more work done. I hope.

All these changes, really, it's making my head spin. I'm exhausted and wish I could escape it all. But, in some ways, it's good. I think I've been stagnant for too long. Now, if I can just survive the summer...