graduate from college

Tonight was my first classes of the semester. I am taking an Abnormal Psych class that is being taught by a first timer. I wanted to tell her to breathe and then take her under my wing. it is funny when i am older than the professor. she was adorable and showed a clip from youtube of tom cruise asserting that he knows the history of psychology. fortunately that doesn’t happen often with my lit classes. my second class is literatures of ireland with this sweet old irish professor. i have taken several of his classes. he is so cute. i love his accent and he tells corny jokes and goes off on tangents, while wearing corduroy pants that hang flat over his non-existent butt. i always want to hug him.

I updated my calendar at work to show that I will be leaving the office. I even found my exam schedule and added that to my calendar. I am date adverse so I need to add everything to my calendar so that i remember!

i got a B in the class i took this semester. i have 5 more classes to go before i graduate. this fall semester i am taking two classes. so i should be done in the next year!

Not really. I have begun to realize that honestly at the end of my life do I really care that my obituary reads that I was the alumni of such and such school. . .not really. What do I care about. . .I was a good mother, I wrote lots of beautiful and stirring poetry, that I hikes miles of trail, that I someone one time said their life was better for having me in it. Not that I graduated with an English degree. I am in school to meet other’s expectations.

I should totally be psyched about going to school, but I am beginning to wonder if I am doing this because I want to finish or because I should. I am not getting any real joy out of it. I will go next semester and see if it is just because of this class.

My company will re-imburse 75% of my tuition and books! I spoke with the HR director and he said sure. I turned the paperwork into my GM this week. I will pay the costs out of pocket and then at the end of the course they will pay me back!

My class starts Wednesday. While I am pretty excited I am a little freaked out because I don’t qualify for any grants or scholarships right now. So I either get a loan (if I even can) or I pay outright for my class which is a considerable chuck of change. Sigh. It just makes me feel a little down. Sucks that I make too much money to get aid, but can barely make ends meet.

Okay. I totally have a problem saying this acronym. It always tries to come out as FASFA. But regardless of what I call it, I just turned the blasted thing in! Wooohooo!

I completely forgot to fill out my financial aid forms. So I am sitting here waiting (im)patiently for my stupid PIN to show up in the e-mail. Why does it take “up to four hours”? ARGH!

I’m patient. I’m patient. I’m patient.

I registered for the Shakespeare class today. It’ll start later in August. So weird to think I am 30 and going back to school.