volviendo

i'm back in the district after a month & 1/2 of simultaneously roaming and re-settling in the windy city. the house is warm, and my hands are sweaty and to me it smells like summer in my room. i'm always a little wired when i finish that drive. i blame it on the dr. pepper, but really it probably has more to do with 12 hours of minimal movement and maximal thinking. the body is about to collapse, but the brain won't shut down.

in any case, au classes start tomorrow. though i'm not actually taking any real courses there, so i don't start my umd class until next week. but i do start TAing anthro of american life tomorrow afternoon; a course in which i will lecture about WWE wrestling and possibly midwestern state fair butter sculpture. i can't wait to see what these kids think of me. i suppose it will be a bit of a reality check after the undergrads nearly knighted me last semester. but given the circumstances, i really shouldn't have let it go to my head.

anyway, here goes the last real semester of classes (if this even counts as a "real semester of classes")......