ok so i knew grad school was going to be tough, and that i was going to have to adjust to a completely different lifestyle...but i think i've passed the "normal adjustment period." i believe i've now hit the "i'm just getting my butt kicked now" phase. so FSU decided to do a "favor" for their students in letting EVERYONE have a car and campus and instead of charging each of them separately, they just included everyone's parking fees in the fees hidden in their tuition...do you know what happens when 40,000 people have cars and there's only about 20,000 or less parking spaces?? let's just say if i don't get to the school before 7:45 am, i'll be paying $3 that day to park at a catholic church parking lot across the road...so this week dave and i have been getting up at 6 or 6:30, getting to school around 7:30 (sometimes working out, sometimes just going straight to our offices) my office hours don't start until 12 pm usually. so i've been usually getting 5 hrs. of sleep, working from 8-3 (no lunch break) class from 4-6:45, getting home around 7 or 7:30, making supper, cleaning, and by that time it's 10 or 11 and i still haven't started reading for class yet which depending which class ranges from 220 pages per week to about 50 pages per week per class. my supervisor was correct in saying that from this point on, i'm never going to be ahead in the game, it's just going to be a constant state of trying to catch up. which i'm not used to, i'm used to having a plan, and doing things at a decent pace. it's a much different lifestyle than i'm used to in good ol' dayton, where life is simple, where people relax. but this is my new life, the life of a chicken w/ my head cut off just running around. this week has been crazy, but it's been very good. i've gotten a lot accomplished at the office. and the only thing i didn't get done is the massive amounts of reading that were assigned, but i still was able to catch on and learn in class which was good.
steelers preseason is now officially over, now it's time for it to count and i'm super excited! it's also time for fantasy football (let the trash talk begin!). Fall is definitely the BEST time of the year and this is why: best weather of the year, college football, pro football, mlb playoffs & world series, changing of the leaves (@ least in the North), Hockey season starts, and pumpkin lattes at starbucks!! i am in my happy place for the 2 months of fall. see in PA fall lasts from sept until the end of november, fall in TN lasted from mid october until late november, in FL idk if fall exists...this could be a very depressing fall if not...
