Category — Schooled

In August of 2003, I started taking classes to earn a BS in Marketing. Since then, I’ve been a full-time student with a full-time career. It was a challenge in the beginning for sure, but once Mark and I got married last July, it went from ‘challenging’ to absolutely freakin’ nuts. For some reason, I thought it would be easier. You know, blahblah two-standing-as-one blah blahblah. Stupid me, I didn’t know how much of a job full-time wife was. Anyway, my last term will start June 4th and end August 3rd. In that eight weeks, I’ll complete my last three classes. Then I’ll sleep until August 7th, at least.

After that, I plan on being footloose and fancy-free, and working on this list: (Friday) Fifteen Things to do After the Completion of a Degree.

.: Sleep, glorious sleep. Lots of it.

.: Cook something for dinner, real food that doesn’t come out of a box and get mixed with milk, butter and powdered cheese. Or for that matter, real food that doesn’t come out of the freezer onto a cookie sheet. Also, eat dinner before 9:45 p.m. Hopefully, before 7:45 p.m.

.: Finish all of the unfinished projects around the house. Some things? Started last year when we moved in. Still unfinished. Shameful, I tell you. Maybe next Friday I’ll focus on fifteen half-started home projects. Here’s a preview:

.: Stain and re-hang the handrail going up the stairs
.: Re-do to upstairs bathroom
.: Paint and finish the upstairs hallway
.: Hang the new tracklighting over the fireplace

.: Read. A lot. This and this and this and this and thisandthisandthis. Oh, and this.

.: Get some use out of the gym membership and kick-ass running shoes purchased in February of this year. It’s surprisingly hard to stay motivated to workout alone after 16 hours out of the house at work and school.

.: Reacquaint myself with my bead collection, and turn out some necklaces and bracelets.

.: Spend time with all of the friends I’ve neglected over the past semesters. I have some great friends who have been so patient with me since I’ve gone back to school, and I miss them.

.: Do something with the 10 ft. x 15 ft. patio wasting away out the back door. My goal is to buy some plants and plant-stands, giant pots and planters, and a bench or table and chairs so we can extend our living space out the back of the house. I’m going to need some help with this one… I’m green-challenged.

.: Teach myself more about web design and development. There’s so much I want to know, it’s overwhelming. I want to know about HTML, CSS, XML, Java, all of it…

.: Me Time. I totally earned it.

p.s. I know this list has only 10 items on it, but if you count the sub-lists, there are 21-ish. Work with me, people. I’m sleepy.

.: Subway lights in Central Park

Next week is the last week of classes for the semester, then finals are the following week. I’m treading water this term, not doing as well as I usually do. I know that I’m harder on myself than anybody else could ever be, and I’m really trying to keep things in perspective so that I can hang on and get through it without losing any more hair. Or sleep or sanity. Because, really: how important are the Principles of Intermediate Microeconomics? I’m not going to beat myself up over it.

Anyway, the time spent sitting in and/or worrying about three classes, combined with the 48-hour weeks I’ve been working makes Sarah Viola a sleepy, dull (not to mention angry at times) girl. But I have ideas, people, things I can write about. In fact, I’m (almost) working on a real post that I’m hoping to have finished tomorrow night.

So. Absence makes the heart grow fonder, yes? It’s going to be a long couple weeks.