So I had a month and a half off for Columbia's Winter Break, and toward the end of it, I was feeling miserable and unproductive and horrible and so not creative... it was a tearful, depressing few weeks.
BUT classes have started again-- my final semester of undergrad-dom-- and with them, life is looking better. Here's why:
1. My classes are amazing and so are my teachers. I have a Critical Reading and Writing: Ray Bradbury class with Sam Weller, who is Bradbury's authorized biographer, which is amazing. I mean, how many classes with a focus on one author do you get to take with the one guy (besides the author him or herself) who knows the most about the author? [Did that make sense? I can't tell] AND how many classes do you take where you TALK TO THE AUTHOR ON THE PHONE at the end of it? I mean, this thing is amazing. The only downside is there are not a few brown-nosers in the class, so I anticipate I'll be doing lots of mental eye-rolling and silent groaning. So that class rocks, but my other class rocks, too. It's an Advanced Fiction class (basically just writing and writing and writing) taught by Joe Meno, who is one of my favorite authors. I've been wanting to take a class with him since I came to Columbia and found out he taught here, and finally, in my last semester, I am! It's almost a little intimidating, and I hope I can actually be productive and not just write to impress JM.
2. My internships. I have two of them right now. One, I haven't started yet, so I can't say whether it rocks my socks or not. But one of them, I have indeed started, and I am in love with it. It's my dream internship. It's the internship I wanted from the second I started thinking about internships. I'm interning with the crew at featherproof books, which is an awesome indie press based in Chicago and run by some awesome sauce people. I'm just way, way too excited about everything, I think.
Anyway, I feel much, much better about life now and I had to write down why, because it feels more real when I write it down.
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