Divisions and Precisions

Three days in a row?

Three days in a row? Damn. I'm working on an update for the bio page too, but that probably won't go up until tomorrow.

I talked about writing yesterday, so that means today I have to talk about school, right?

Our power went off this morning. Fortunately, I woke up in just enough time to dash madly around the house and make it to work on time.

A note for windy days: don't wear a large billowy shirt unless you want those around you to see far more of your upper body than you normally would show. I *cough* gave a bit of a show on campus today around 3:20 or so.

I Are a College Student

After all my fine words about writing yesterday, I didn't write a damn thing after finishing my journal entry. I stared at the screen blankly. I changed a few words. In fact, Jen describes my mindset much better than I could. The only difference is that I don't have cats or The Sims here at work. God help me if I had the Sims here at work. I was up until 1 am with those little buggers again, trying to make Jake and Elathan (yes, all my Sims are named after MUSH characters, leave me alone) get married. I found out why she kept turning him down when she went and fell in love with her female roommate, too. Oops. So now the goal is for all three to live happily together. Maybe.

I talked about writing yesterday, so that means today I have to talk about school, right? That's what was distracting me from writing, actually. I was trying to figure out my class schedule for spring, summer and fall terms. Spring and summer are both short eight week terms. As of this morning, I'm registered for one class for spring (three hours), two classes for summer (six hours, considered full time), and four classes for fall (twelve hours, definitely full time). This fall I'll be cutting back my hours at work and working three days a week. After this fall, I'll be a senior and I'll have nearly finished my general education requirements. And the important part: I should graduate in April of 2003.

Spring will be a cakewalk. I'm taking an introductory sociology class. Originally I was going to take EMU's stupid "lifetime wellness" class, but it was full. That's definitely a summer class. I don't want to sit through that for sixteen weeks. Summer I'm a little worried about. I won't get home before 8 or 9 on any given night, between school and work. I'm taking a Native American literature class and an introductory philosophy class. I have a feeling I may be doing a lot of homework at work. Fall I'm looking forward to. A lot. Aside from the gen ed classes (the second part of sociology and a history class), I'll be taking an ethics class for my minor (I did mention I'm a philosophy minor, right?) and a "major authors" lit class. I'm so geeked about that. It's a senior level course, and we'll be studying T.S. Eliot. I thought yesterday that I didn't meet the prerequisites, so I emailed the prof and begged her to let me in. However, the system let me register for it with no problems. Why am I geeked? Look at the title of this journal, for one thing. ;-) A part of my brain is going, "Aha! Finally! A challenge!" I hope so. I really do.

So I'm thinking about grad school. Is it too early for me to start looking around? I don't think so... I remember looking around at colleges my junior year of high school. The temptation is to just blindly go on to EMU's grad program. I may end up there, but I think I'd like to look around a bit first. I've thought about it a lot, and I really want to just concentrate on school at that point. I want to be able to quit my job, move back out on my own, and go to school full time, relying on assistanceships and loans and scholarships and whatever to get by. That's going to take some planning on my part now, like paying off the one outstanding student loan I have, and a few other assorted debts. I'm not drowning or anything, so I think it's doable.

Wow. Me, back in school full time. I didn't think that would ever happen.