Back to school

OOPS. I missed my Monday deadline to post. Fifty lashes with a tagliatelle grande for me (a la Lemony Snicket's Esme)! Soon I shall have to do better about these deadlines, for next week heralds the beginning of a new era for Aly: graduate school.

I've decided, after much gnashing of workaholic teeth, to take my original plan down a notch and just start with one class this semester. Though two classes are considered the normal load for students working full-time, I don't want to test my still-fragile health, and I also don't want to commute an hour or longer in rush-hour traffic to the south campus more than once a week. If you read between the lines, you're right: my school has two campuses, one in Round Rock (north of Austin) and one in San Marcos (south of Austin).

When I applied to the school's technical communication program, I was under the impression that I could take classes at either campus. Turns out this is only as true as the claim that the moon is made of cheese. (Wallace & Gromit found this claim to be true. However, if Japanese astronauts had gone to the moon, they would have expected to find rabbits pounding rice-cakes. So who's right?) Yes, classes are offered at both campuses; but I have recently been informed that the majority of classes tend to be where the majority of students are, which at the present time is San Marcos. And I moved up north to be closer to the Round Rock campus. Adding further to the irony, the only class being offered at the Round Rock campus this semester is online, and it is so popular that after registration had been open for just one minute the class was closed. Remind me to do a series on Murphy's Law in action sometime.

So I will be taking just one night class at the south (San Marcos) campus, and praying that 1 1/2 hours will be enough time to get from downtown Austin all the way to San Marcos during rush hour. In order to save on gas and lost sleep, I've made the brave decision to use my parents' house in south Austin as a weekly rest stop.

Life will only get more interesting, I suppose. Stay tuned (or tune out) for further adventures of Aly the grad student...