August 24, 2007

• Thank you to everyone who has been patient with this girl this week and my non updates .

  ***Just a warning before you continue to read - this is a lot of me blathering with details that you are probably NOT going to be interested in, but I am a detail girl so I figured I would throw it all in there and you can decide if you want to read it or not... ***

  I am pleased to tell you all that after having completed the first week of school I am feeling pretty good about this decision to go back to school.  I had forgotten how much I actually LIKE school.  This semester is not going to be an exception to that.  I cannot even begin to tell you how grateful I am for this opportunity.  It is amazing to me that a year ago this possibility wasn't even on the radar screen - and now here I am in a totally different place in my life.  Weird.  But good, you know?

  Monday I went up to school in the early afternoon to get my parking pass and books for the semester and got a little overwhelmed realizing that this was in fact a reality now - no more talking about it, I was actually doing it.
  

  Going to class that evening for the first time I was really surprised at how nervous I was.  I mean seriously - tons of people do this, many of them with more on their plate than I...I have always been a pretty good student and sooooo not nervous about meeting new people - so the fact that I was that nervous threw me off a bit.  Kind of funny to me now.  I am such a weirdo.  Fortunately I adapt to new situations fairly quickly.

  So for those of you who are wondering what classes I am taking this semester...here goes.  I think that I had mentioned before that my degree is actually going to be a sociology degree - they have an employment relations track [like HR] that was going to be the fastest way for me to get through school with a marketable degree.  I am pretty excited that it worked out for me to have a minor as well - so my minor will be psychology.  The cool thing is that pretty much all of my classes will be either Psych or Sociology classes...there are a few required classes in each of those categories, but the majority of them I will get to choose what interests me.  SUPER happy/excited about that - so many cool choices!

  Soooo - the classes I chose for this semester....Women, Gender and Society, Cognative Psychology, Sociology Theory and Race and Ethnic Relations...Lots of reading, lots of writing, but all super interesting so that really helps. 

  I will hopefully be released from the doctor this week to go back to work - so starting next week I will be adding a work schedule...but I think that I have a good working plan for juggling it all, and while a little nervous about the implementation of said plan, I think it is going to be okay...

  So there you go...I have a few pictures to share, but need to get them off the camera and want to get this posted...so that will have to wait...

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