The Recent Developments of my Mildly Boring Life.

For those undoubted few of you who read my blog this post will update you on what I have been up to recently. I will also mix in the songs I am listening to like I did with my music post. 

The current song playing is "Give me Love" by Ed Sheeran. My mom told me to look him up today and spent a large portion of my walk home from work (I talk to my mom while walking to and from campus) telling me about him. Therefore, I looked him up and am listening to him via spotify.  I like what I've heard thus far.

I moved out of my old apartment in the middle of April and into a townhouse adjacent to the opposite side of campus that my previous apartment was. I really like it so far- I have awesome roommates and the area seems really social and fun. I'm excited to live here for the next few years... It feels good to be all moved in and settled and to know that I won't have to move anytime soon :-)

Now Fly by Ludovico Einaudi is playing. My friend Kameron sent that to me via spotify. It's a chill song. I like it. Quiet music rocks. ;-)

I made a big life change recently: I switched my major from Business Management to English Teaching. Totally different fields, I know. I decided that I really need to be studying something that I am passionate about and that I am really going to enjoy. That is English. I have always loved English and I feel really great about focusing my study on it. My goal is to get a masters and then find a job teaching high school English. My dream job would be teaching Juniors or Seniors in high school- preferably creative writing or AP classes- but we shall see where I end up... For now I am happy to study English and try to find happiness in my current life stage. 

I have now paused my music because my roommates and I are going to watch the Family Stone. So now I am listening to/watching that movie.

This spring I am taking 5 credits (spring term at my university is half the length of a normal semester, so students generally take half the work load and are in class double the time each week so that it equals out to the same amount of class time as in a full semester). One of the classes I am taking is British Literary History part 1. It is AWESOME. I seriously love it so much. It has only been two weeks, but I am already obsessed. My professor rocks and the stuff we are reading and learning about is so wonderful. Forreal. I just get so excited when I think about this class. It's three times a week for two hours and I love every minute of it. After two hours I don't even want to leave. I just want my professor to keep talking because he is that fun to listen to. I love words. I love literature. I love the English language. I love Anglo-Saxon poetry. I love poetry. I love loving as love loves loving. I may have ripped that last part off of a novel I read by Jonathan Safran Foer a while ago... It's a great quote- you should look it up sometime. Also, you should read Jonathan Safran Foer's books because he rocks. Also you should embrace some Anglo-Saxon poetry, it is incredibly fascinating. love love love. And that is that.

Life is crazy busy as always, but I am loving school (especially now that I'm going to be focused on studying material that I am so passionate about), I have a great job and an awesome boss, I'm making new friends after moving, I have a netflix subscription, and I have ears that can listen to music and a mouth that can sing along, albeit poorly. Life is grand. 

-E