I found out today just which classes I’ll be teaching this fall.

I’ll have News Writing and Reporting, Editorial Writing, Genre Writing, and Mass Communications Law.  There are also two internship programs I’ll be overseeing, as well as serving as faculty advisor for the campus newspaper.

Now the fun begins.  I need to select textbooks and get the orders in to the bookstore, develop course syllabi, decide which health plan and 401K to enroll into, choose a paint color for my new office, and more.  But it’ll be so neat to combine my two loves, teaching and journalism.  Plus, they’re giving me a brand new Apple MacBook Pro.  Sweet!

In the meantime, I’ll be working this summer teaching Speech and English classes at the Community College.  It’s probably a good thing because the money will help, and those classes will divert my attention away from the new job this fall just enough to keep me from fretting too much.  Right now, life is good.