Classes start in two days. Wow. Where did the summer go?

So, I was supposed to hear back on Monday from the Space building guys. Didn't happen. I assumed they were taking a long time to work through everything. So I waited all day today. I waited for an email as I steadily convinced engineering freshman to at least look into studying Chinese. That was a blast. Get back to the apartment, still no email.

It is now about 9:30, and still I haven't heard a yes or a no. So I sent an email to the TA office, accepting their offer. You know, not as glamorous or well paying. but it's money, and face time with some of the better professors in my department, so it's not a total loss. Plus I automatically get time off for anything pertaining to my school work, like finals, so that's a perk. Oh well. A job is a job, just one more bullet point to my resume.

Tomorrow is training, and a little more studying where I can fit it. And then it's the deluge of classes. At least I don't start off the year with my 7:30am class. This year is going to go great. I can just feel it in my bones. I've made my mistakes, I've learned from them. Sometime in the near future I go to apply for my passport, and my visa, look into flights to China for the summer camp I'm looking into.

But yeah, nothing interesting over the weekend happened. I just went home, hung out, enjoyed the last free weekend I'll have for a long time. This week was pretty plain so far, aside from what I've mentioned so far. Hopefully, once classes get going, I'll have some interesting stories to come up with. Though I'm crossing my fingers that they won't be about my professors. I've had enough dealings with crazy, eccentric, unkempt, unorganized professors to last me the rest of my career. But I can feel, deep down all the way to my toes, that there will be at least one this semester.

Oh, and in closing I had to teach Sam how to make pasta tonight. He can make all kinds of other foods, but he didn't know how to make pasta. It just kind of boggled my mind. How can you go your whole life, making other food, and not know how to make something where literally all you have to do is boil water? I just watched in horror as he tried to pour the noodles before the water was boiling, and this was after I stopped him from using too small a pot to begin with. I just couldn't sit there for long, so I had to coach him through the process while I made my tea. This is going to be an interesting year to see what he comes up with.