anti snooze

i found something to wake up for in the morning.

it sounds cheesy, but i hate cheese so it isn’t.

seriously, i love sleep and i hate waking up early so it does take a lot to really make me want to jump out of bed at 7 am or so instead of hitting the snooze.

and it is teaching. the last 2 days i have learned so much about teaching theory (only mostly anecdotally so it was actually interesting) in our graduate teaching academy and i was truly excited to be there. I would definitely willingly spend a lot of my free time going to teaching seminars, workshops, etc, and I don’t think it would feel like work to me at all. I kind of was afraid that I was just doing teaching because I know I can without any real passion but this week I have realized how fucking excited I am to get into a classroom. And not for me. For the students. I just want to interact with them, show them things, make them see how amazing linguistics and spanish and whatever else can be.

the only problem is that the Spanish department here is super rigid about the way I have to teach and they are not all methodologies that i feel are the best or would like to use. but i’m a new graduate student and while i may think i know what’s up, i know that i won’t achieve (thanks volants) excellence by dismissing all their advice and doing it my own way. on the other hand, if i suck it up and do it their way, there is a chance i might achieve excellence. plus if i’m ever a full professor i can run my own class however i so choose then. so i guess i have to put my own opinions aside and give in and do it their way for a while.

oh, also: running. i used to just run because i felt it was a good thing to do and a challenge (read: i hated it) but now i actually look forward to going out running when i wake up. it probably helps that the weather has been freaking perfect here and that my neighborhood is gorgeous and old and tree-filled.

now i just need to get back into yoga and guitar and i will really be up in the morning, or maybe just putting off sleep at night.