Today, I was abruptly awakened at 10:48am to a phone call from an unknown number. It was one of my students. Apparently this state degree meeting is an all day thing -- that started at 10. Awesome. And I hadn't showered in days. Also awesome. So I panicked (might have stopped mid-getting dressed to jump up and down, screaming out of frustration) and got ready as fast as I could.

I pretty much just helped the students work on their degree paperwork all day. It was slightly frustrating, and probably mostly annoying paperwork at that.

Some of the students kept saying that I was in a bad mood. This is frustrating. So I tried to be more positive. I think the problem is that I'm not accustomed to the weather here just yet. It's basically a freezer. I'm also not a huge fan of music within the country genre. I'm also used to hanging out with college students and doing whatever with them and having the freedom to do whatever whenever. Not so anymore.

Hence: frustration station.

In other news: the system for kids to assemble their record books and paperwork for their state/american degrees is completely ridiculous. It's all written in accounting language that even I had a hard time ciphering. And I'm a graduate student. These were high school juniors trying to figure out what in the world things were saying... I felt bad. But also realized that the record keeping section that I will be presenting to the class in another week is going to be difficult. Much more difficult than I had originally anticipated because I don't really know what I'm presenting information on, and I don't really know what I'm doing in general, plus, it's ridiculously hard for me to understand, so how in the world am I going to be able to present it in a way that they can understand it? ulgh.... it's like learning how to translate while still not even knowing the language.

Might be meeting up with my CT on sunday to go over things I'll be teaching in the next... week/term.

weird.