And here I was hoping that the end of school would make me less busy. But instead I’m having to catch up on all the things I’ve been putting off for school. Including sleep, which I can’t seem to get enough of. I mean, really can’t get enough of. I’m more tired than I’ve been in a long time. Accumulation of all the hard work of the past semester, I guess. I’m kind of looking forward to my job ending on Thursday.
That’s right– with the end of the project I’ve been working on, my job ends, too. I’m looking forward to a bit of free time– at least, I might get free time, I’m interviewing for a job at BYU tomorrow– but I’ve been at WGU for more than a year, and I’ll miss it. Good people, pretty good place to work. But I’ve outlived my usefulness– I need to move on to bigger and better things. This internship, developing this program and this assessment, has been really good for me, but now that it’s done, my talents would just be going to waste. So, we move on. If I don’t get this job at BYU (it’s in the Graduate Studies office, doing writing and editing and training), I might apply to be a grader at WGU. It would be contract work, which would be good for my schedule, and it would look good on my Ph.D. applications. Might help make up for my complete lack of teaching experience, which still has me worried. I’ve been trying to think of alternatives to getting a Ph.D. Maybe I’ll end up getting my MLS after all; with a MA in English and an MLS, I could work in an academic library, which would be nice. I might still be able to get a job teaching English at a junior college, but even then I’m going to need to get some teaching experience somewhere, to compete with all the other MAs who will have teaching experience while I don’t.
Gah. I’m so screwed.
And so tired.