Cawledge!

I'm off for my first day back to school. Very exciting. Got my way-too-heavy backpack. Got my lunch and snacks. Got my bus pass and BART money. I'm all set.

(Online classes started last night. Looks like they'll be good, though I have some quibbles with the language used in one of the lectures, like I want to sit down and give the instructor some Language of Oppression 101 training, but her heart is obviously in the right place.)

Cawledge!

This'll be fairly disjointed. I'm too wiped to organize.

I'm really truly a college student now! Did my three on-campus classes (back-to-back, two hours each) today; started my two online courses last night. Outside of one teacher who will frustrate me, I'm happy with all my classes. (And inside one teacher, it's too dark to read!)

ASL teacher is a kick. Great sense of humor, third-generation Deaf, and she is enthusiastic about combining our ASL lessons with some Deaf culture awareness, so that's awesome.

My classes are as far apart as they can be and still be on the same campus, and there are lots of stairs getting from one to the other, so man, did I get a workout today, especially after ASL, when the teacher let us out a minute late and I had nine minutes to get to Ethics. Not complaining, though (much), because it did feel good to get a bunch of exercise, and to feel busy and productive all day.

The school desks are too small to be comfortable at all, but not too small for me to fit in them, so that'll do.

I packed myself a decent lunch, so I didn't spend any money today except for my train fare, so that's cool. I need to do some planning for optimal lunch packing, but now that my super-nifty thermos has arrived, that's gonna be fun/easy/silly.