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So I had this nice backup plan for the summer: if I couldn't get into the intensive Greek program, I'd just take creative writing at ACC instead. It's not really useful credits-wise, since I've taken two creative writing classes there before (one on short stories, one on poetry, and this one is short stories and poetry both), but it's taught by a professor I quite like, it'd give me a good excuse to write more poetry, it'd give me some rough sort of schedule to hang my summer around... I don't do real well with giant blocks of unscheduled time. It'd also be a hell of a lot cheaper and less stressful than intensive Greek, which would make for some nice consolation as needed.
I checked the dates on when the UT summer session starts many a month ago, so that I could schedule a trip (involving flights, which are best not booked last-minute) in the gap between the end of spring semester and the start of the summer session. Turned out to be pretty easy. The flight got booked, things at UT don't start until June... all is well.
Except.
It turns out that because of one thing and another, I can't actually register for intensive Greek until...May 31st. Yes! The last day of May, when the class starts at the beginning of June! I emailed about having a spot held for me, but there's no guarantee of it. So on the last possible day before classes start, when it's far too late to change any plans, I find out whether or not I can get in.
Ah, but it gets better yet. I had assumed--foolishly, it turns out--that ACC would, as usual, map its semester schedule roughly to UT, maybe give or take half a week. But no. The ACC summer schedule--and the creative writing class I had as my backup plan--starts on May 24th. Almost an entire week before I can even find out if I'm able to get into the Greek class. And the professor just told me that the creative writing class is filling up fast...
I think I've hit some sort of stress limit break. Instead of panicking and curling up into a tiny ball of wibbling stress over this madness, I'm sitting back and going, huh. I really don't have enough information to make a good decision about this either way. Guess I'd better just pick one or the other, run with it, and cope with whatever happens!
It's an oddly freeing sensation. The time for panic is past! The time for a bemused sort of coping is upon me. Guess we'll see how it goes.
(And, yes, the temptation to go "Screw this, I can take Greek in the fall! Less stress all summer!" and just sign up for the creative writing class--which I'd then have to miss the first week of, due to flight times--is ever greater. But I'll see how I feel about all this on Monday.)
I checked the dates on when the UT summer session starts many a month ago, so that I could schedule a trip (involving flights, which are best not booked last-minute) in the gap between the end of spring semester and the start of the summer session. Turned out to be pretty easy. The flight got booked, things at UT don't start until June... all is well.
Except.
It turns out that because of one thing and another, I can't actually register for intensive Greek until...May 31st. Yes! The last day of May, when the class starts at the beginning of June! I emailed about having a spot held for me, but there's no guarantee of it. So on the last possible day before classes start, when it's far too late to change any plans, I find out whether or not I can get in.
Ah, but it gets better yet. I had assumed--foolishly, it turns out--that ACC would, as usual, map its semester schedule roughly to UT, maybe give or take half a week. But no. The ACC summer schedule--and the creative writing class I had as my backup plan--starts on May 24th. Almost an entire week before I can even find out if I'm able to get into the Greek class. And the professor just told me that the creative writing class is filling up fast...
I think I've hit some sort of stress limit break. Instead of panicking and curling up into a tiny ball of wibbling stress over this madness, I'm sitting back and going, huh. I really don't have enough information to make a good decision about this either way. Guess I'd better just pick one or the other, run with it, and cope with whatever happens!
It's an oddly freeing sensation. The time for panic is past! The time for a bemused sort of coping is upon me. Guess we'll see how it goes.
(And, yes, the temptation to go "Screw this, I can take Greek in the fall! Less stress all summer!" and just sign up for the creative writing class--which I'd then have to miss the first week of, due to flight times--is ever greater. But I'll see how I feel about all this on Monday.)