Countdown to My Degree!

Yay!  My culminating project discussion is Friday at 1 p.m.!  I'm nervous, but pretty much blocking it out of my mind at this point.  I feel so inept, but I can't study all the theories of the sublime and uncanny--I can only concentrate on what I've used for my paper.  I pray my readers aren't too harsh with me and that they can't tear my paper to pieces, but I've been assured I'll graduate no matter what--it's just getting through the discussion of my paper without bursting into tears that I'm worried about!  I'll appreciate your thoughts on Friday! 

I need to keep planning for my classes.  My first class has 9 out of 15 students, my next class has 20 out of 20, and my evening class only has 2 out of 20--I'm sincerely hoping there are some more evening students who decide, "Hey, I need to learn to write better.  How 'bout I take this one?"  I've also emailed my daughters' school about subbing to make a little extra $$ if possible. --Even if it doesn't pay that much, there's no extra gas involved and I'd get to be where my girls are all day long.  I'll also volunteer for field trips, class parties, etc.  I'm really looking forward to the school year because I finally feel like I've arrived at a place instead of continually journeying onward to where I want to be someday.  I've been in school for longer than I care to admit, and to finally be done, well, let's just say I'll be relieved.  I know life is a journey and we are to continually better ourselves, but at this point, I don't see myself getting a PhD, so my college journey is over, except for an occassional class I may take now and then.  Perhaps a knitting class?  heehee.

I've been doing extra schoolwork with the girls over the summer to get them in shape for school.  It's actually been a lot easier than when I was trying to homeschool--I think I'm a little more relaxed, and Snugglebug makes funny voices when she doesn't know how to do something instead of crying hysterically like her sister did.  So, if/when we homeschool in the future, I might not be quite as downtrodden each day!  Snugglebug didn't even know 1/2 of the alphabet during her K eval in June, but I've gotten her to read words and sentences over the past few days--woohoo!

Another milestone--Lovely can finally swim pretty far without her lifevest--another yay!  What milestones have you passed lately? 

Procrastination

Pro-cras-ti-na-tion:  Putting off what you know needs to be done in order to do something often deemed wasteful but momentarily emotionally gratifying. 

Yep, I'm a procrastinator.  I used to be one of those students who did her work way ahead of time just to make sure it got done in time for me to check it over and over again.  Then, I grew up. 

I have a paper due tomorrow.  Did you hear me?  Due TOMORROW.  What am I doing?  Blogging.  Ok, I've written it, but my heart just isn't in it because it's a tutoring session analysis and I'm just not feelin' it.  Oh, but that's not all.  I have another paper due on Friday, which I haven't even begun.  Don't people just zip out papers on cultural disjunctions of the 16th and 17th centuries on the fly?  Oh.  Well, maybe I should get started on it then...

My weekends don't seem to exist anymore.  What happened to them?  Boy, I'm looking forward to December and not having classes.  Snugglebug and Lovely still adore their classes.  Snugglebug informed me she doesn't want to homeschool--ever--she loves her friends too much.    They both really do love it...we may continue sending them to school next year as well, or a few years, as Hubby said today, depending on how things go.  As long as we keep pointing them back what is right, and do the best we can to train them in the way they should go, then we will keep praying about school.  Honestly, I look around the office/school room and I am disheartened that I invested so much time and effort into homeschool supplies, plans, hopes, etc.  But...I don't really miss actually doing the homeschool work.  Lovely is learning to read just fine with charter school.  She is learning about Respect (with a capital R!) at school, and she gets to have PE, music, library, art, and computer classes--things for which we just ran out of time.  She gets to climb and swing (did I mention we don't have anything to climb/swing on at our house?).  She's learning responsibility and to get along with others of various ages.  So, I feel I finally have more time to focus on what's important for me to teach them in their learning: about God.  

Ok, now I'm off to finish that paper and then play with the girls. I'll put off writing the other paper until later...