Come December

Heaven help me; I'm taking 10 credit hours over the 8-week summer semester, and my first class met last night.  The (normally four-hour) entire class period was taken up with a bunch of us feeling like preschoolers, learning - and attempting - to introduce ourselves and start a polite conversation.  I'm glad she cut class short, because I don't think I could have handled any more on the first day.  And I'll have it again tomorrow.  For four more hours.  Did I mention the fact that it's a Spanish course, and the only things I know how to say in Spanish are a few (fairly impressive) insults?

Okay, breathing now.

I'm also taking Abnormal Psych and Marriage & Family as correspondence courses.  I've found over time that my psych/sociology courses are usually the ones that work out best from home.  Here's hoping that hasn't changed since last semester.  Want to know another super-fun little tidbit about Marriage & Family?  My first assignment is due today.

Oh, right...breathe.

And in the middle of the semester, right before midterms, I'm hoping to take a long weekend (over the 4th of July) with The Princess and The Grumps.  We'll be heading down to our family vacation spot a few hundred miles south, as long as I can swing the gas expense (crossing my fingers!!!).  The day we leave, as well as the day we get back, I have Spanish class at 5:00.  Oh, and this will be my first time attempting a road trip with The Princess for such a long way...not to mention the fact that it'll be just me and her in the car.  Reinforcements won't be far away, with The Grumps in their truck, but I'm sure it won't be anywhere near the same as having someone actually in the car with us.

Breathing.

Even while I sit here psyching myself out over the new semester (and new material), I can't help but feel excited.  Once this semester is done, I only have one more to go before I have my Associate in Science degree.

Next big life decision: what the heck do I want to be when I grow up?

But before I go jumping headlong into that pool, I think I'll take some time to enjoy where I am right now...or, more accurately, where I'll be come December.