this fall will be a little different. matt's work schedule has changed due to a "turn around" that he has a role in. as of last week, he works 5pm-5am, 7 days a week until thanksgiving, with every 14th day off. its not anything we expected to dodge indefinitely but it pretty much sucks now that its here. don't get me wrong, i cherish me time, but its already getting old, boring, and lonely not having matt home at night and not seeing him long (if at all) before he leaves in the afternoon. i'm afraid as it begins to get dark earlier and the holidays approach, it will get even harder to keep the serotonin firing on all cylinders... they're finicky enough as it is.
one thing that has kept me quite busy is my job. i started teaching chemistry at lamar this semester to fill a few retiree vacancies in the faculty and will be there at least through may. i never saw myself as a teacher (still kinda don't) and didn't apply for the job, but was asked if i wanted to do it. the first few weeks i was so stressed out that i started having palpitations! i had to wear a heart monitor and they figured out it was something like superventricular tachycardia... niiice... anyway, it has stopped and i'm more comfortable at work now. its still weird, especially when 40somethings call me mrs. ruggles, and my former teacher (who intimidated me to tears one day in organic lab) asked me to call her by her first name.
however, doogie howser complex aside, i'm fairly certain i want this to be my career, as long as i get to do research too. so the ph.d. is definitely on the horizon. i'm planning on talking with a few professors in the coming weeks to try to get a better idea of what field to pursue... more on that later...
the gen. rs meeting was last weekend, general conference was this weekend and i'm going to time out for women next weekend. i've tried to take a few things from each session but i think i've already reached my saturation point! anyway, some things have stuck:
-- "Simplicity is the ultimate form of sophistication." -L. DaVinci
-- a very cool perspective on the mirrors in temple sealing rooms was explained by Elder G.W. Gong. probably my favorite talk.
-- Faith is a gift, a choice, and an action. and a concept that tends to evade me... especially the choice part.
hopefully time out will be good. i know there will be something there for me if i can fight off the cynicism, but a friend told me it was "like efy for old ladies." : ) wish me luck!
