New Semester

Classes have started today. I'm taking some that I've wanted to take for a long time, and others that are just there. I wish I was more excited about it. But right now, I'm just not. I hoping I'll feel better about it soon -- once I've at least been to all of the classes.

I don't know what my problem is. Perhaps it's the whole bit of German drama that's just tainting everything for me. Replacement German Professor is certainly not German Professor, but he doesn't seem absolutely horrible either. I'm neutral at this point. Of course, he did manage to find a way to weave Poker and soccer into daily classroom activities. That is very un-German Professor like, perhaps simply because GP is a woman -- or perhaps because GP has never used gimmicks in her classes.

She sent me an email the other day just to tell me that -- if I wanted -- the Berlin Film Festival and the X-Filme Creative Pool were interested in receiving my credentials in writing for a potential internship. The Berlinale and X-Filme. God. Why does she do this? Since she's been gone I've finally come out of the fugue state I was trapped in and had finally begun imagining myself teaching Frankenstein to bored-out-of-their-minds college freshmen. Now she comes up with this out of nowhere. I'm really beginning to think that there is such a thing as having too many opportunities. And with other factors about my life also being affected by this, I have no idea what to do.

But it's hard to brush off the opportunity to potentially work for the company that brought the world directors like Tom Tykwer and Wolfgang Becker.

Somebody shoot me.