Life is Funny

4 days till I leave for Florida
38 days till I leave for the UK

Happy June!

How is it I'm STILL busy and I'm not attending classes? It just doesn't make sense to me! I've obviously putting my energy in other places now. :P

I did get my final grades and they stand thus:
Quantitative Field Methods (QFM): A- (somehow I pulled that one off!)
Ecology: A
Service Learning (SL): A (*sigh* I had a 97.65%, I was hoping for an A+, but oh well)

For my overall cum GPA, it's a 3.86 (still).

It's looking good. I was hoping to graduate with a 3.9 GPA, but it doesn't look like that'll he happening unless some miracle happens and 28 units of A transpires to a 3.9, but I sort of doubt that'll happen. :) Doesn't mean I won't AIM for it, but I'm not getting my hopes up. :P As is, if I graduate in Spring of '08 (it's ALL up to my stupid classes and the scheduling!), they won't be counting those grades anyway for the program and ranking. :D Though, I guess it only matters in the transcript. LoL

I've slowed down my grad school search, but still plan to take the GRE next year. I'm waiting for the new GRE books to come out and then I'll buy those (close to the end of the summer) and start practicing. I'll probably kick it back into gear on grad schools later. I need to hunt around, contact some professors and such, but I plan to take a year off after I graduate with my BS anyway, so I have a while (though not too long). I'm thinking (really tentative right now) of visiting a friend in Maryland and hitting all my east coast schools, which happen to be around there. They're close enough to take day trips to (U of Penn, Johns Hopkins and Columbia to name a few). I've been advised by lots of professors to VISIT the campus and TALK with the lab assistants and professors. Since it's a Masters, I'd have to have a professor to take me on and I sort of need to meet them beforehand. :P But, I'll cross that bridge when I come to it. What I really need to do is map out a 2 year plan for once I graduate. I want to go to Europe again after I graduate (you know, see places outside the UK), go to the Kentucky Derby in 2009, visit college campuses, and then there's that thing called "saving" for grad school. :P Something is going to have to get hacked, though, and Europe is looking like it and it's kind of sad, to be honest. Oh well, I still have some time to really think about this all. LoL

I still haven't picked a capstone project. I NEED to do that SOON. I need to submit it to the professor so he can add me to the roster and I won't get docked anything with my scholarship money and all that. I'm all set-up for doing it, just need a project, submit my resume and cover letter to MBARI, get accepted, and go through the orientation at MBARI then I get to start. :) I'm getting paid to complete my capstone, couldn't get much better than that. On top of that, I may be able to stay on working with Judy after I graduate, which would be nice. It's pretty 'laxed there so I can take my time off and such. Plus, I may get to do some traveling for her (some of the other student assistants are going to Washington state for a conference to represent NOEP).

My "work" at the Harry Potter site is going well. I work in the contests so we come up with new contest ideas, judge, etc. We're gearing up for some new things and I'm excited about them. I'm completing a project that's been in the pipeline for a while now, but everyone got busy and couldn't complete it. So that's coming along. It's ALMOST complete too, so I'm excited about that. There's a few minor things that need to be added/changed and it's FINISHED! I will jump up and down for joy when it's officially off the to-do list. It'll make everyone else happy to see it completed too. I'm kind of known as the motivator. Lol I do things that need to be done, I prod people if something needs to be done, etc.

I'm getting excited for all my traveling this summer too. Heading to Orlando, FL on Tuesday. That'll be fun. :) Going to be hot, but fun none-the-less. Europe trip is coming along. We know where we're staying while in London (thank goodness!). The only thing that's really standing in my way of getting super excited is my passport hasn't arrived, yet. With all this Canada/Mexico thing with needing a passport now, it's delaying my passport arrival! I turned it in March 19th, so I'm hoping it'll be here by the end of the month. If not, I'm going to start to panic. Still haven't shopped for Europe either. *cringe* With all my working and getting out of the rythmn of school and getting into the work one, I've just not done well with finding time to DO things outside work and home. LoL

Speaking of work, work is going well. I'm kind of depressed I'll be missing the Harry Potter release at work. It sounds like it's going to be a lot of fun, but it's sort of "work or UK? Let's think about this...Yup, UK." :) So I guess I'm not THAT sad. The weird thing about work is the fact in 3 years, we've gone through over a 100 new employees. There aren't that many people (aside from the supervisors and managers) who have started around the time I did or before that are still around. It's been kind of weird seeing all these new people and working with them. I mean, new being anyone who started at Christmas. The entire IPT team (aside from John) is completely new since I first started. It's kind of sad too. There are some old employees I miss, but oh well.

The Belmont is this Saturday, though I'll JUST miss it because I work at 3pm. *sigh* Oh well. I wasn't going to watch it at first because Street Sense wasn't going to be in it (still depressed he lost the Preakness) and the field was going to be about 5 horses (ridiculous!), but it's grown now and Rags to Riches (a filly!) has been added to the field. So that should be exciting. I think Curlin will win, but I'm hoping Hard Spun will since he ran 2nd in the KD and 3rd in the Preakness. Well, Hard Spun or Rags to Riches. Gotta vote for the filly. Fillies rarely race in the Triple Crown races and usually aren't able to win against the boys, so it's kind of neat.

Anyway, this posted went longer than I thought. Gotta sleep so I can shop tomorrow for Florida (need lightweight clothing) and get my teeth cleaned (bah).

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