Party hardy

The countdown continues. Getting through school, two jobs, selling and packing, oh my! Shit is getting real.

I'm a little terrified right now about the move but I know I'll feel better once we arrive and I start working and set a routine. While I can't appropriately anticipate how difficult the first few months will be, I'm trying to mentally prepare myself for it. Will report back with results upon our arrival.

No, we're not alcoholics. 

We had a small get-together/going-away celebration on Saturday. Plenty of food, drinks, and games (Cards Against Humanity, anyone?). I've also been running into a few people - high school friends, extended relatives - while taking care of smaller errands. It's strange bumping into one another now, of all times, when I haven't seen these people in years and won't be again for a couple more years to come. Sometimes life makes its own plans.

With two papers written, three exams remaining and two more days of school to take them, it's starting to dawn on me that these are the last classes required for me to earn my degree. I've learned more about life, planning, organization, and how to think than cold hard facts during this time. I never expected all this. I wonder what grad school might teach me.

I know what I know and have an idea of what I don't know that I don't know. I remember reading about the 4 stages of competence when I was 18 and first starting my job at Coffee Bean. In terms of education, I feel I've successfully risen to stage 2. Maybe I'll decide to pursue stage 3 at some later point.

It feels like I'm 18 again with all these possibilities and questions. We'll see where my decisions take me.

Myspace reminiscent but aptly portrays how I feel right about now.