Well, dammit. I was all set to make my first posts to the class discussion groups for my foray into graduate school, after completing orientation last Saturday. Today's the first day of the fall quarter, and I have the readings done, lectures heard, notes drafted. I even uploaded the notes documents to a web-based system I use (and also admin) so I could copy & paste then edit for some bbs posts. Whee!

But no. Today's supposed to be allotted to viewing the initial class lecture that's been posted for like 2 weeks, and which I checked out more than a week ago. Tomorrow's supposed to be the start of posting for the first module. Thought about uploading stuff today anyway, but that would not set the right tone. Only a couple of my classmates have even updated their user profiles, as we all were instructed about during last week's orientation.

I also have to do some voiceover powerpoint introduction of myself for the other class and get started on its readings. That's work for Friday & the weekend -- that and dreading the two groupwork assignments for that class, which will keep me quite busy for some time to come. I'm appreciating the readings so far, and the first professor has posted some really interesting questions about them to start the discussion, but I'm getting less and less comfortable with the logistics of this whole project as I approach it.

I thought the orientation would help to quiet those murmurings, but in fact it bumped them up to a low background howl. It's probably not helping much to just keep churning the worries inside my own head, but I don't seem to be finding a better way to deal with that.