Oh, the summer nights....
I'm ready for school to be out, just to let the world know. I'm ready for my senior year so I can get the heck out of Converse. I like the school, don't get me wrong, but I'm tired of the little bubble world. Anyway, I've been thinking about what I could possibly do over the summer. Here are my options: Work a monotonous job as a cashier for 40 hours a week so I can pay off my credit card bill and save up some money to spend on art supplies and frames for my senior show in a year, or try to get an art therapy internship at the Anderson Cancer Society part time (if they let me, of course) and work part time at the double edge sword that is Target. As soon as I get back to school next week, I already have an appointment for advising with Merilyn, but I'm going to see if she can help me get the internship, or just plain art therapy volunteer hours at the Anderson Cancer Society. In the Anderson Independent on several occasions there have been articles about the art therapy work that they do with cancer survivors' children. This to me sounds ideal, and will help me determine where I want to do my internship for the fall and the spring of my senior year.
Speaking of school, apparently Converse no longer has the EDS in Marriage and Family Therapy. It is now a Masters of it, which means if I went through it I would have to get my fricken PhD just to have my own practice basically. This would mean that Sheila and I both would have to change plans (though my plans right now have to stay flexible anyway because of Aulden. I just really like Sheila's idea of a business, and think it is something that is much needed and I would love to be a part of it if she'd let me.) As it is, I don't really want to move up north for an art therapy grad. school program. Plus I don't know if any would accept me with my grades, even though my GPA is over a 3.0. That basically leaves me with the option of....a masters in social work, which is what I was going to have as a fall back plan anyway. Right now it feels like my school career is never ending. I just really want my own place, honestly. Shareese and I live together beautifully, and I wouldn't change that for the world! I am starting to feel the whole "You're getting older now and it's time for the little birdy to get out of the nest, but Converse has made that really hard for you to do unless you talk your parents into moving to Spartanburg, get married, or get pregnant." Suckage... Oh yeah, and there is no way I'm going to do like some of the ladies on campus are doing. They have an apartment off campus, but keep their room on campus. I'm paying for room and board so I'd damn well better live there! I have a loan that is gaining interest as we speak, so there is no way I could afford to 'live' in two places at once!
Oh yeah, my aunt is a labtech and I'm going to see if she can do the thyroid test to see if there is a problem. If it shows there is, then I'm going to find a doctor. If there isn't, then I'll continue as I always have.
Keep on keepin' on.
Speaking of school, apparently Converse no longer has the EDS in Marriage and Family Therapy. It is now a Masters of it, which means if I went through it I would have to get my fricken PhD just to have my own practice basically. This would mean that Sheila and I both would have to change plans (though my plans right now have to stay flexible anyway because of Aulden. I just really like Sheila's idea of a business, and think it is something that is much needed and I would love to be a part of it if she'd let me.) As it is, I don't really want to move up north for an art therapy grad. school program. Plus I don't know if any would accept me with my grades, even though my GPA is over a 3.0. That basically leaves me with the option of....a masters in social work, which is what I was going to have as a fall back plan anyway. Right now it feels like my school career is never ending. I just really want my own place, honestly. Shareese and I live together beautifully, and I wouldn't change that for the world! I am starting to feel the whole "You're getting older now and it's time for the little birdy to get out of the nest, but Converse has made that really hard for you to do unless you talk your parents into moving to Spartanburg, get married, or get pregnant." Suckage... Oh yeah, and there is no way I'm going to do like some of the ladies on campus are doing. They have an apartment off campus, but keep their room on campus. I'm paying for room and board so I'd damn well better live there! I have a loan that is gaining interest as we speak, so there is no way I could afford to 'live' in two places at once!
Oh yeah, my aunt is a labtech and I'm going to see if she can do the thyroid test to see if there is a problem. If it shows there is, then I'm going to find a doctor. If there isn't, then I'll continue as I always have.
Keep on keepin' on.