Friday, March 20, 2009
Stressful Season
My stressful season has begun, that crazy time in each semester designed to test my stress relief skills, time management ability and caffeine consumption. Within the next three or so weeks I have a lot of projects due, and just to make things more complicated, I have a new Daisy Girl Scout troop I'm leading. Plus in a week and a day there is a major adult leader training here and I am presenting one session, however it won't be until Monday that I know how many people are coming and can really adequately prepare. But God will get me through it, just need focus and motivation for schoolwork.
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Hoops
Life was much better and simpler when the only hoops I needed to jump through was the one in the hula hoop that I chose to jump through while using as a jump rope.
Years later, nothing is simple. To move one must get a new place, pack up, leave or sell the old place, then reestablish their life in a new location with friends, church community, volunteer opportunities, etc...
Right now my grad school is adding new hoops to jump through just to have a simple question answered. They said one can request to take a class rather than do an experiential learning opportunity if one has had professional experience. So I asked...now I'm on my third hoop they are looking for me to jump through, just to get an answer which will determine all the rest of my semesters. The kicker is, I have to jump through the prior hoop to even learn that there is another one or what it is.
This all leaves me wondering.
Really, is it hard to present everything someone needs to do up front with this process? What lesson is this teaching me about how to be a professional? Then the questions turn on my actions, what hoops do I make students jump through without realizing it? my friends? family? potential boyfriends? If I do this, how do I eliminate the hoops?
Years later, nothing is simple. To move one must get a new place, pack up, leave or sell the old place, then reestablish their life in a new location with friends, church community, volunteer opportunities, etc...
Right now my grad school is adding new hoops to jump through just to have a simple question answered. They said one can request to take a class rather than do an experiential learning opportunity if one has had professional experience. So I asked...now I'm on my third hoop they are looking for me to jump through, just to get an answer which will determine all the rest of my semesters. The kicker is, I have to jump through the prior hoop to even learn that there is another one or what it is.
This all leaves me wondering.
Really, is it hard to present everything someone needs to do up front with this process? What lesson is this teaching me about how to be a professional? Then the questions turn on my actions, what hoops do I make students jump through without realizing it? my friends? family? potential boyfriends? If I do this, how do I eliminate the hoops?
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Oh, how poignant
My TV just died. After getting it for freshman year of undergrad, it died during my first year of grad school having survived many trips to college, a move to PA, NC, and back to PA.
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