Today was my last official day of summer until August.  Tomorrow I make my return to school to take two classes and teach one.  I will officially be insane by  Thursday, as for the month of June I’ll be in class for 5 hours on Mondays, then 8 straight Tuesday – Thursday.  Fridays I’m sure I’ll be in a catatonic state, wondering what I’m doing to myself.  It’s only 4 weeks, the class I’m teaching is Public Speaking (and against my nature, I’m going to make this the easiest class these kids will ever take!), and if worse comes to worse, one of the classes I’m taking I’m doing as an audit (translation: for no grade) so if I need to let something slide, I do have some wiggle room.

Oy.

I met up with some friends for lunch today that I haven’t seen since the semester ended in April.  I miss my friends.  The other day someone asked me if I was ready to go back, and I said a very definitive yes.  I officially got bored.  I’m ready to get back into the swing of things (although I think June will be more frenzy than swing).  I’m ready to see my friends again.  I like the people I’ve met.  We are a pretty cool group of people.

Met with a professor as well, and got some interesting career/student/academic advice.  I always appreciate the people that will tell things to you straight up, and not coat things with a lot of bull.  I know most people don’t agree with that, but I like knowing where things stand.

So it’s time to pick up the pencils and books and get back to being an academic now.  I haven’t done any work on my book chapters, or any of the other projects I have planned for the summer.  Eh – the summer is long – and I did need the break.

I just hope my public speaking class this term is as cool as the one class I just had this past spring.  If they are cool, then it will make things a lot more bearable.