Long-awaited updates!

Well, I meant to blog...probably a month ago. Now, it's almost finals week and things are winding down.

Sem = done. Ran my project (almost 90 participants). Wrote my paper. Presented.
D.O.N.E.

Ridiculous. This semester has been a lot of work. Sem took over my life, in addition to working on my child development class, my self and society class, and my independent study on scene memory in infancy. Overwhelming. Add that to work 24 hours a week--8 of which were in the lab, which counted for my independent study (plus the paper I had to write). I was really hoping for a nice easy semester. Maybe next semester? Except I'm already signed up for 17 credits--but I plan to audit 5 of those. I just want to learn stuff from psychopathology...I don't want to do the work. And I want to take the half marathon class, but I hurt my knee this summer and don't want to fail the class if I can't run. Either way, that equals a lot more class time...so I'll still probably be busy from 8 am to 5 pm. Bah.

For the rest of this semester (ie finals) I have one test--not cumulative--on Thursday from 10-11. I also have one paper, 6-12 pages, for my soc class. It's already 5 pages...I just need to write the method section. I don't really want to work on it, but I do want it to be done. Clearly it's not just going to magically finish itself...so that's my plan for tomorrow. I'm also supposed to head to Oshkosh or Fondy with my sister when she's done working. But we're also supposed to get roughly a FOOT of snow. I'm beyond excited for the snow...but it wouldn't make driving fun.

Today was a wonderful day. I got a Christmas gift from my boss in Financial Aid (candy, some card games, a mug and hot chocolate); a gift from my boss in the Dean of Students Office (candy in the cutest little penguin); a care package from my family (fruit, snacks, and candy); AND I got an e-mail...from a grad school! Illinois State University would like me to interview for their Doctoral program in school psychology!!! It's the first I've heard back from a grad school...and it's good news :) It doesn't guarantee anything...but it's much better than the rejection letter that I COULD have gotten!

So, to celebrate...we went to Dos Gringos after sem today! Happy Hour is from 3-6 pm, which means that margaritas were buy one, get one free. You can't have just one. The best past was that there were 5 people there from my sem, a few other random friends, and my psych professor/advisor. Only in Ripon would you go to Happy Hour with your professor. I do love it here.

Since then, I have been watching Criminal Minds nonstop...back-to-back episodes...I can't look away. I should probably go back to watching that, and hanging out with my friends. I promise to return to regular blogging...it's definitely therapeutic to write everything out. Hopefully I'll have lots of exciting stuff to blog about--like maybe eventually getting into graduate school?!?