18 Harvard student minds to meld

Well, we'll see. The last 24 hours have been a whirlwind. I have just been hired to teach a section to Harvard undergrads as part of a class called, "Visualizing Social Problems through Documentary Film and Photography" - it's in the Sociology department, which in some ways is a perfect segue to graduate school. I'm very excited about doing it - but also feel totally overwhelmed with the extra work load. One of the things that tipped the scales is that we are going in debt so much faster than I had budgted. It is so expensive - I'll get a nice paycheck each month from Harvard that I'll just turnaround and give back to them for health insurance and other fees.

After having a very "at home" week-end with the kids, it's been a shock to only see the kids the last few days for an hour in the morning and an hour in the evening. I rationalize it because Chris is home with the kids - and we'll probably never have this opportunity again. The bummer is that I'm not able to do hardly anything social outside of my family - I have this great opportunity to have a small dinner with my professor and then go out to see Celtic music in a few weeks but I just can't because I know I'll be loaded with work and I won't see my kids at all thatday - plus a few days later I'll be on a plane to Berkeley (Oakland Int'l to be exact) for a recruitment week-end. Another thing on my todo list - coordinate that!