And so begins senior year

Oh school.  School and all your friends and activities and work and business that you offer.  Oh, and schoolwork?  Wait, where do I fit THAT in?!  I've already come across my first scheduling dilemma of my semester.  See, if you look at just my classes and work-study by themselves, my week looks like this:

M: Class 8am-7:10pm (with one 1-hour break and another 3-hour break in-between classes)
T: Work-study 9am-12:30pm
W: Class 8am-1:10pm (one 1-hour break)
R: Lab 8am-12pm, Work-study 4pm-6pm
F: Class 8am-1:10pm (two 1-hour breaks)

On Wednesdays I have scheduled two events that are very dear to my hear (Students for Life meetings and FOCUS Mass), so looking at my schedule, my thought process was, "Oh, my Mondays and Wednesdays I for sure can't work, so I'll cram all my other events (other FOCUS events, Christian Life Community, etc., etc.) onto those days and leave Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays free so that, if I need to be called into work, then I won't feel guilty about missing some meeting or event!"  Yeah, problem:  Since Mondays and Wednesdays are now full, all I have for study nights are Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays.  Silly girl.

Don't let that make you think I'm grumpy though.  I'm incredibly stressed but blessed.  I'm SO much happier than in the summer time...10x happier.  Sure, if I try to think about the next 2 weeks all packed together I get a little light-headed and wonder what in the world I'm doing with my life.  But when I calm down and make myself think in one day segments...man, life is good!

This year my friend Courts and I are living in a 2-person On Campus House (OCH).   The two bedrooms are definitely small and can only handle one person each. But the rest of the house is amazingly spacious.  It has several nice funny quirks (an old mini-bar area in the basement (don't worry, no crazy wild parties for this girl), our house is located behind one of the party fraternity houses on campus (heard one of their parties just last night!), a cat that lives somewhere in the area that we're going to lure in and make our unofficial "house-pet").

Well, I think that's a pretty good update for the time being :-).  I hope your summers are wrapping up quite nicely!