Back to the college grind!

 Around midmorning in a few hours, I’ll begin my new semester at my university with a class about sociology and religion and examining Shakespeare. It’s really been a while since I had a semester, since I didn’t take a summer course since I’m in the final stretch with two classes completed earlier this year, two more in these few months, and four more next year. With these last classes, I want to take my time with them rather than rushing through them in the summer, so I had an extended break. Reading through the syllabus, I’m getting the familiar trepidation around class beginnings. They do seem to like adding additional assignments with the usual work and only when start getting into the groove do they seem manageable.

For the sociology and religion class, there’s a group project (Aah!) where you have to do outside class work and do that with your group to talk to and/or observe people. Due to my leeriness of working in school group projects, interacting with others, and the transport and scheduling problems, I’m feeling the most trepidation about that. One involves some papers and a presentation. The other involves making a film and some shorter papers. Knowing my general luck with accommodating professors, though, I’m sure she would find some way to help. I’m interested in how religion affects society and vice versa, so I do look forward to this class.

For the Shakespeare class, what’s got me nervous is doing a performance. Journal entries and essays dealing with my reaction to the work and analysis studying them is exasperating but I can deal with. Performing a passage in a certain deliberate manner and having a reason for choosing that passage might be difficult. I’m not sure how to intentionally tone a passage since I’ve not played much with my voice and I wouldn’t be sure how to explain my choice without tying it to something easy to memorize and possibly do by myself (Might have to do with groups if the passage involves more than once speaker). I notice when I have to look to choose something to comment on there are moments and passages that pull to me, so most likely that would be what happens then. Shakespeare’s an English requirement and I’m admittedly not as interested in it of the two classes. But I know some scattered knowledge about Shakespeare, writing styles, and how it influences other stories, so I might have some interesting stuff to say.

The progress on my stories is going well. Still writing the first and last chapter of Past Wild Endurance, though the latter became a bit easier when I saw what the ending of a certain scene would be. Wobbling a bit through plotting Past Kingly Endurance. I’m gradually starting to see somewhat where I want to go, it’s fitting it all together with other plot points that’s the problem. Nearly done on my rewrite of Babysitter For A Day which I might have another go at, I’m on the second draft for Call of Anxiety, and I’m done with the second draft for A Young Encounter. Just need to read it over again and I’m done. Though I think I’m going to have to do what little editing I could. My mom was willing to look over Dinner With Royalty but editing is slow and she’s pretty busy, so that seemed to have been dropped. I surmise I’ll have to do my own editing in the future since she’ll likely continue being understandably pretty busy in the future.

Anyway, I’ve fallen quite far behind from what I progressed sometime in late July or August in my watching and news reading. I kind of hope being back to school would get me back on track but who knows. I might have to drop reading certain news articles in order to find time to read assignments. Hopefully I can adjust to that, since I’m used to reading everything on two websites for several years now. I also hope I can get back on a descent sleep schedule, so I would be more alert for these classes. It has been a rollercoaster even during the previous semester.

Anyway, got to go. Sleep and the beginning of the new semester to tackle. Bye!