I know I've said this twice before, but my stint really is at an end in Admissions. Now in the final days of my second summer in this office, I don't have my camera around to take cute pictures of toilet paper holders and the Director of Admissions. I don't have any puns left up my sleeve. In fact, I haven't got much to say at all. In two days, training begins for Orientation Leaders (like me) and on Sunday, New Students arrive. This is the lull before the semester starts and it is eerie.
After work today, I'm heading down to the Turtle Creek Bookstore to take advantage of being one of the first on campus and nabbing the used books on the stacks. I know this makes me sound like an economical, motivated student, but the truth about the rest of my afternoon paints me a little bit lazy. Ready?
I'm supposed to have read the common reading for New Student Days by now.
This book was sent to all OLs and New Students at the beginning of the summer with instructions to have it read cover to cover before setting foot on campus. "The Omnivore's Dilemma" is a book that's been on my own personal reading list since last summer. I think I actually slipped up and said "yay" when I heard it was the selection for this year. And yet, somehow, I still have a hundred pages to go.
Historically speaking, I'm not procrastinator, but this first academic assignment after a summer full of 700-word articles on the NY Times website is posing me a bit of a challenge. So, this afternoon I'm buying as many used books as I can find off my list and turning to the one book that's been on my desk all summer. I'm sitting down in the coffee shop on Pleasant Street and I'm not getting up until I'm done.
It's time to put away my summer brain and get to work. Wishing you all the best in doing the same.
