1st weekend

I made it through my first week (i.e. three days) of classes.  I don't particularly like my HoScho seminar, but I love my Children's Lit class.  I'm much less anxious now that I know what i'm doing for both of my theses.  I'm also loving the fact that I'm not always in class.  Writing two theses means I do a lot of independent research and writing, but at times I choose.  Thankfully textbook rush at the bookstore is almost over.  I'm about to lose it with some of the freshmen, even though it's not their fault they don't know what they are doing!  Things should ease up here soon.

Hopefully my next post won't be months from now....

last day of summer at home

I head back to school tomorrow.   The next time I post, I'll have to change the title of my blog.

days

20 days till classes start

13 days till I move in for the year

8 days till I take the GRE

7 days till my last day at the preschool

5 days till my last day at the lab

the beginning of the end

Only one month until classes start.  And boy do I have a lot to do in that month!

allergies, boys, and grad school

Whew.  I've had a wild few days.  The boy finally started talking to me again, and he apologized for taking out his frustration on me earlier this summer.  I appreciated the apology and am glad he still wants to talk.  I miss him very much.  In talking to him earlier today, he told me he's off work till Saturday and bored out of his mind, but when I asked him about getting together, he said things were too crazy and he couldn't drive out of town.  I wish he'd understand that I need to save all my money too but I believe seeing him is worth spending a bit of it.  It wouldn't be so bad if we met halfway.  Hopefully things will get better in August.

I went to the allergist this morning to have an allergy evaluation - that wonderful procedure where they scratch your back with a billion different allergens and see what happens.  Well, nothing happened.  And when they did the under-the-skin test on my arm, nothing happened.  So I'm not allergic to anything.  I'm not surprised since even poison ivy doesn't bother me.  However, I did find out I have asthma.  It's not bad, but it is enough to mean I'm clinically asthmatic.  I have to use an inhaler twice a day for a month to see if that does anything.  I never thought I could be asthmatic.  But it does explain why I can't breathe as well when singing and why my frequent bouts of bronchitis are a minimum of three weeks in duration.  I guess I'll know more in a month.

I've registered for the GRE.  Exactly one month from today, I'll tackle the test that will largely determine where I go to grad school.  Between now and then, I get to study study study.  I've got the books and will be doing practice problems for the next few weeks.  Hopefully I'll do well so I won't have to take it again.  This fall's gonna be wild enough as it is.  I'm also still in the process of picking grad schools.  I've found about 10 that I like, but I don't know if I'm done looking or not.  My GRE score will help determine that.