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Picked up next semester's course schedule today, and have spent the entire evening poring over it and happily fantasizing about next semester. I made half-hearted attempts to work on my homework in the Native studies class and also to study for the two(!!) art history exams I have next week, but ... lack of functional brain is a problem. So I'm back to looking at the schedule.
The big question, I guess, is whether I want to take classes that I'm not really interested in, just to finish up the degree in the spring, or give myself an extra semester or two, and take the courses that really excite me. Right now I'm leaning towards the latter option, because there really is no big rush for me in finishing the degree. And it would be nice to have a couple of part-time semesters during which I can work on the novel(s) and Kismet, instead of another full-time semester with no time to do any creative stuff outside class. (Though I just realized the zooarchaeology class that looks really awesome next fall doesn't qualify towards my degree. Bugger.)
Tentatively I'm looking at 8 credits in the spring and maybe 6-9 next fall. At this point I pretty much just need upper division humanities/social science credits, so I can cherry-pick the things I most want to study ... and throw in other stuff to fill out my schedule.
One such hole in the schedule is on Tuesday and Thursday mornings next semester. Orion and I share a car, and the first class he's teaching is at 9:45, while my first class doesn't start 'til 11:30. So I'm poking at various one-credit phys-ed courses to fill the gap during which I'd just be hanging out on campus anyway. It's currently a toss-up between yoga or beginning rock climbing. I really want the rock-climbing course because not only have I always wanted to learn (I was climbing-wall certified in college, but I wasn't very good at it), but I also think it would be awesome research for stories yet unwritten. (Writing. It's a disease.) The problem is that I'd only have 15 minutes to make it all the way across campus -- sweaty and tired -- to my next class. Whereas yoga would be a nice relaxing way to wake up and then I'd have half an hour before my next class. Decisions.
The big question, I guess, is whether I want to take classes that I'm not really interested in, just to finish up the degree in the spring, or give myself an extra semester or two, and take the courses that really excite me. Right now I'm leaning towards the latter option, because there really is no big rush for me in finishing the degree. And it would be nice to have a couple of part-time semesters during which I can work on the novel(s) and Kismet, instead of another full-time semester with no time to do any creative stuff outside class. (Though I just realized the zooarchaeology class that looks really awesome next fall doesn't qualify towards my degree. Bugger.)
Tentatively I'm looking at 8 credits in the spring and maybe 6-9 next fall. At this point I pretty much just need upper division humanities/social science credits, so I can cherry-pick the things I most want to study ... and throw in other stuff to fill out my schedule.
One such hole in the schedule is on Tuesday and Thursday mornings next semester. Orion and I share a car, and the first class he's teaching is at 9:45, while my first class doesn't start 'til 11:30. So I'm poking at various one-credit phys-ed courses to fill the gap during which I'd just be hanging out on campus anyway. It's currently a toss-up between yoga or beginning rock climbing. I really want the rock-climbing course because not only have I always wanted to learn (I was climbing-wall certified in college, but I wasn't very good at it), but I also think it would be awesome research for stories yet unwritten. (Writing. It's a disease.) The problem is that I'd only have 15 minutes to make it all the way across campus -- sweaty and tired -- to my next class. Whereas yoga would be a nice relaxing way to wake up and then I'd have half an hour before my next class. Decisions.