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I feel surprised.
Today is March 21 and this is my first entry for 2010.
I suppose you could say that nothing remarkable has occurred so far this year, but I think that's not true. Maybe nothing particularly newsworthy, but lots of important things have happened. I started and finished my 6th (and 2nd-to-last) quarter of school; a close friend of mine got engaged (about which I am thrilled); more wedding plans have been made; I managed to handle (again) a bucketload of stress. Nothing extraordinary, but all personally exciting nonetheless.
Technically, I'm on spring break right now. It's not really a break due to still going to my internship and the fact that I have to do some paper editing (story of my life). I'm also going to attend an orientation/training for a part-time job I took on for my 7th and final quarter of school; I was hired to work at the student counseling center at SPU. Since I have not yet been to the aforementioned training, I am not 100% certain of my duties, but I do know that I will be doing some data entering, setting up intakes, doing assessments on college students to rank the necessity level to seek a mental health counselor (e.g. are they suicidal?), etc. More to come on this later.
At this point I'm starting to think about real jobs; how daunting! Entering the "real world" and getting things like a career complete with benefits? It sounds like a fairy tale to me; I've been in school all my life and I don't know anything different. I suppose this will all be a learning experience. There are a couple of prospective jobs orbiting at the moment - I just hope I can nab one sooner than later, and it winds up being a job from which I can learn a lot, gain the necessary hours to take my licensing exam in approximately 2 years' time, and, let's be honest, allow for a few luxuries that I have not been able to afford thus far.
So, a few months late, here's to 2010 and all the trials and triumphs it holds.
Today is March 21 and this is my first entry for 2010.
I suppose you could say that nothing remarkable has occurred so far this year, but I think that's not true. Maybe nothing particularly newsworthy, but lots of important things have happened. I started and finished my 6th (and 2nd-to-last) quarter of school; a close friend of mine got engaged (about which I am thrilled); more wedding plans have been made; I managed to handle (again) a bucketload of stress. Nothing extraordinary, but all personally exciting nonetheless.
Technically, I'm on spring break right now. It's not really a break due to still going to my internship and the fact that I have to do some paper editing (story of my life). I'm also going to attend an orientation/training for a part-time job I took on for my 7th and final quarter of school; I was hired to work at the student counseling center at SPU. Since I have not yet been to the aforementioned training, I am not 100% certain of my duties, but I do know that I will be doing some data entering, setting up intakes, doing assessments on college students to rank the necessity level to seek a mental health counselor (e.g. are they suicidal?), etc. More to come on this later.
At this point I'm starting to think about real jobs; how daunting! Entering the "real world" and getting things like a career complete with benefits? It sounds like a fairy tale to me; I've been in school all my life and I don't know anything different. I suppose this will all be a learning experience. There are a couple of prospective jobs orbiting at the moment - I just hope I can nab one sooner than later, and it winds up being a job from which I can learn a lot, gain the necessary hours to take my licensing exam in approximately 2 years' time, and, let's be honest, allow for a few luxuries that I have not been able to afford thus far.
So, a few months late, here's to 2010 and all the trials and triumphs it holds.