first day

today is my first day of graduate school classes.  i had a sleepless night last night.  i have always had an issue with being increasingly nervous before the first day of any new endeavor.  

first day of college....check

first day of play rehearsals...check

first day of second city classes....check

first day of i.o. classes...check

first day of teaching...check

now it seems i am continuing this grand tradition by being as nervous as a long tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs.  (apparently, this graduate nervousness translates into me using southern colloquialisms)

i have my books, pens, pencils, and notebooks all laid out.  i have been practicing my use of graduate "smart" words like:  unmitigated and audacity and menagerie.  i have my first day outfit ready to go.  

however, all of this planning won't really get me over the nervousness.  getting through the first couple of weeks will do that.  it always does.  i just have to see that graduate school isn't all the fire breathing professors and personal mental deficiency i have built it up to be.  i just have to trust in myself.  

for you see, there is a menagerie of reasons this intellectual endeavor will send me soaring into the clouds of success.  i just have to get through the first few classes.

until then, i will be sweating as much as a whore at a tent revival.