No you cannot cite Wikipedia

 After a week of being sick and lots of travel I am almost done grading the first paper for my class, and the future does not look good.  One of my students cited about.com, while another cited wikipedia.  I know that these are freshmen, but still.  It makes me enormously depressed that the university I graduated from has such low standards for admission.


It also makes me sad that I am still not being paid for teaching.  Apparently the hospital still has not changed my FTE status from 0.5 to 0.25, so I cannot officially be hired at 0.3 for the teaching job without getting benefits, and neither of my part times jobs can offer me benefits.  Because I am not in the system as working for the university as a professor, I cannot receive a paycheck and my bank account is extraordinarily sad.  I do not foresee getting a paycheck from the University until I quit my job at the hospital, which, ironically I cannot afford to do because teaching does not pay enough. 


Did I mention that I cannot wait to move?  I am super excited because I should find out where I will end up next year in the next few weeks.  Scenario 1 has me getting into Columbia and figuring out how boyfriend and I will be able to afford Manhattan and tuition and fees at a private school.  Scenario 2 has me either not getting into Columbia or deciding that the debt isn't worth it, and boyfriend and I move to Iowa.  Both of these options are great, and as of July (scenario 1) or the end of May (scenario 2) I get to start the next chapter in my life.  

And it is February

This week was boyfriend's 30th birthday.  It is also a week I spent on the couch with a fever.  Fever dreams are quite interesting.  In one, my doctor friend and I were taking a girl we haven't talked to since middle school to the hospital because she was in labor.  Odd. 


Tomorrow boyfriend and I leave for Kansas to go camping.  I'm looking forward to hot cocoa and toasted marshmallows by the lake.  Yay.


The only downside of this weekend is that I haven't finished my grading yet because I've been sick.  I suppose my students will just have to wait.