Shannanigan's Search for More...

I fear that I have an odd fascination with notebook paper, my dear friends, and I'm not quite sure when it began, (perhaps it was when I was a child and I bought an ugly binder in a yard sale simply because it had a ream of loose-leaf in it and was only one dollar!) but it sprang up on me again today and beat out my eco-conservative side in the battle of "Whether to Buy New Notebooks or Re-Use Old Ones."

See, for pretty much all of my college career thus far, I have survived on about 4 notebooks that were once thick and are now...err, not. At the beginning of each semester, I'd rip out all the notes from the semester before, store the ones I wanted to keep in a binder, and voila! I had blank notebooks ready for more classes.

This of course only worked because I take a lot of courses that don't require a LARGE amount of notes.

ANYWAYS...I am taking 6 courses this semester, two of which I am not expecting to be taking a lot of notes in (one is a composition course, which means I need more loose-leaf and printer ink, and the other is taught by a professor who had yet to teach me anything...though I have taken 4 courses with him...). This leaves me with 4 courses that I expect to be taking notes in, and so far, after the day of classes I went to, it seems like there will be A LOT of notes...3 are education courses, and one is a course on Charles Dickens.

Now, I have 4 notebooks left over from last semester. They are a tad thin and the covers are a little worse for wear, but they have the all-important PAPER inside of them. One of them is even a 2-subject notebook! (Used to be 3, I tore out a divider to combine two small sections into one.) I could, theoretically, survive this semester just fine, as long as I use shorthand, write small, and do a good job of predicting which classes need what number of pages...

But, alas, I did not feel that I could accurately predict the number of pages needed for notes in my education classes. See, these are the first major education courses I will be taking (300-level). I've taken a couple before, and they required a small amount of notes, but the professors in these courses seem much more intense and revved up and ready to pour on the education terms, theories, and mehods. It's rather intimidating, it is...

So, I caved in and bought two large 3-subject notebooks from the school's bookstore. That means I even have notebook paper for the 2 classes I may not be taking notes in! (gasp!) I feel a little guilty...like I'm going to be wasting paper...

but I guess I can always re-use all these notebooks next year. And, if not, while I go for my masters. And, if I still have some notebook paper left (very likely with my conservative practices) then I can use them as journals for my years of teaching

Hurray for notebook lovers!