June 2010 Archives
Graduation thoughts
I turned my last assignment and had my last final yesterday. Overall, I’d say my finals went better than I thought they would.
With the academic year over, graduation stuff is everywhere. (Congratulations to Candice, who just finished her masters, and my brother, who graduated from PCC in Architectural Drafting!) So I thought I’d look into what sort of commencement options there will be for me when I graduate in December. As it turns out, not many. If I want to walk, I would have to do it either this August or next June. I don’t really want to walk 4 months early or 6 months late, so I guess I won’t be participating.
It’s too bad, really. I didn’t attend my undergraduate graduation, even though I could have. I kind of wanted to attend this one, though – especially if they had a smaller departmental graduation ceremony. I have worked a lot harder for this degree, since I was working a lot more hours and the classes were a lot more challenging – and I have a life outside of school in a way that I didn’t in undergrad. (You know, getting married…stuff like that…) This time it feels like a Big Deal, in the way that last time didn’t. And C really wanted to get to blow an air horn when they called my name.
The moral of the story is that I will have a really big graduation party, and I will guilt everyone into coming. You HAVE to come, because it’s the only celebration I get! <puppy eyes>
Home stretch
I’ve got a week left until I’m done with finals for this term. It’s going to be really tough – I expect all of the finals to be very challenging, plus I have a project due on next Thursday as well. I always have a really hard time motivating myself to study for finals – there’s no concrete deliverable I have to complete, I just have to “know the material”, so it’s easy to just put it off.
After finals I’m going to take a couple of days off, and then this summer I’ll be working both of my current jobs – 20 hours per week each, which adds up to full time. I am seriously excited to be working only 40 hours per week. Of course, even though I spend far more than 40 hours per week on school or work currently, it’s a bit more spread out, so I’ll have to remind myself how to do 8 hours of work per day all together.
And SUPPOSEDLY my husband will be unemployed this summer. Tuesday was originally supposed to be his last day, but his unemployment has been extended until July 1st. You’d think I’d be happy about this, but I just want him done with the job. I want him barefoot and in the kitchen, making my dinner, where he belongs. :) Seriously, though, this job has been far too stressful to be worth continuing, and we’re all ready for him to have a break to recharge and relax. I’m really hoping his employment doesn’t get extended any longer than July.
Anyway, assuming he does get laid off, between the two of us we’ll have gone from working 120 or so hours per week (in April and May) to only 40 hours. It will be soooo nice.
