back to school

 [we heart it]

today is my first day of summer school. so far so good. i'm taking two classes for the first six weeks and two for the second six weeks. this term i'm taking 'when nightmares become real: trauma in adolescence' and 'theatrical genres: humor'. i'm not very excited about the second one but it helps fill my theatre studies requirements so i'm not complaining. while i wish that i had a few more days to do nothing, i enjoy summer classes overall. there are usually less than ten people in each class and you can focus on two subjects rather than four or five like during the fall or spring semester. i'm also preparing to take the g.r.e. in august. i'm mostly worried about the math portion of the test. i told michael, "i remember being able to do the math problems, i just don't remember how i did them." so...this should be interesting. personally, i feel like all i should need to know to teach three year olds is basic math, but nobody asked me!

here are my summer goals:

..reorganize my closet and under my bed (sooner rather than later).

..find an internship at a theater in the education department for the fall.

..bake something new once a week.

..craft something new once every two weeks (once a week if i'm feeling ambitious).

..make a dent in both my read/watch list. i would like to say i'll finish them both but with three theatre study courses this summer, i know i will end up reading at least 30 plays. so we'll see how that works out.

..spend at least 6 hours a week studying for the gre, ideally ten.

..begin preparing for the grad school application process.
..start packing lunches in my new plum goodbyn (discovered on bleubird vintage.)

..refresh my memory when it comes to the basics of french.