Day 1

No, I will not be posting every single day. Weekly is about all I will be able to manage, at best. But since this is the very beginning of the Jekyll/Hyde Experience, it seemed appropriate to blog about having a heart attack looking at the syllabi.


Dear Lord, what have I gotten myself into?


Forget splitting my time between being an employed librarian and a student; I'm going to have to take time off in order to get everything done. "Electives" does not mean "Easy", but I was hoping that it would come closer to "Less Intense" than the required courses. Nope.

Why does school always have to be so hard? Is it so criminal to want to be able to enjoy a class that I'm taking instead of wanting to cry my eyes out every time I look at a syllabus? What does it prove by making me so miserable that I can't function like a normal human being until the class is over?

I hate having to chose between being a productive member of the faculty or getting good grades semester after semester, year after year. Let's be honest; I can't do both at the same time. I've tried and failed over and over and over. Either I get the grades that everyone expects or I can be good at my job. Not both at the same time; I'm just not smart enough for that.