Most people looked at me askance when I told them my plans for the fall: full-time work and 6 graduate credit hours. Many of them are concerned for my well-being (mental, physical, and otherwise). Some of them are concerned I have some complex that causes me to think I'm Wonder Woman. (Note: I don't.) And a couple of them are pretty sure they will have an absentee roommate in the fall. (Entirely possible: I'll be there, but I won't truly be there, if you know what I mean)
And if you were one of the people who thought I just may be crazy, well, you're probably right. Because it's no longer full-time work and 6 graduate credit hours. It's now full-time work and 9 graduate credit hours. Indeed, I'll be a full-time worker and a full-time student and a sometime sleeper, roommate, and friend.
No worries. I'm sure that, after August 25, I will still have some Internet presence. Procrastination has always been an essential part of my character as a student--and though I know I won't be able to get away with procrastinating in the monumental (and, I've been told, disgustingly unfair) fashion I did as an undergrad (My best grade was on a 10-page paper I wrote in three hours the night before it was due. I don't even recall reading over it for grammatical errors before I handed it in.), I have no doubts I will still periodically put off till tomorrow what I could have done two weeks ago.
If anything should need to fall by the way side, it will most assuredly be my job. And they've promised to be understanding if that happens. But they think I'm so extraordinary that I can juggle it. Maybe I am extraordinary.
Or maybe I'm extraordinarily crazy.
Either way, I'm looking forward to my graduate student experience.
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Extraordinarily somethin'!
are you joking? Haven't I warned you about this? What brought the extra class on? Truly i am sad that you are not in the ward anymore, how can you not be int he ward? you live a block away? By the way, I ams orry I didn't pick you up last sunday, teaching had totally stressed me out and I wasn't answering my phone to anyone! Did you make it to church that day?
To answer your questions, Caroline:
I'm not joking. You have warned me about this. But I'm confident I can handle it. And I'm also confident that I'll know what will have to go by the way side if I can't. They're all classes I need for my degree, and I'm entirely intrigued by the way the third class combines creative writing and critical thinking.
I wasn't at church on Sunday, but that was due to a massive migraine.
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