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Just plugging along. Not working has made a big difference already, I've managed to get myself out of all-out panic mode, a state I was in for at least a month. Now I'm just halfway between okay and panic mode, which is pretty normal for me.
I've been in Vidalia all weekend, even though Hannah and Brannen both went home this weekend and went to the fair without me. It was very sad, but I've managed to make it through the weekend without getting too upset. My parents went to Athens on Thursday and saw the Duhks with Hannah and William, and I would have loved to go to that also, but at least then I actually had fun plans that didn't include school work. I went to happy hour with some people from school (including my prof) and ended up hanging out with him and a bunch of his friends at the tattoo shop in Statesboro until almost midnight. It was a good time though, they were cool people and it's been a while since I've been in big group like that and only known one or two and still felt really comfortable. Maybe all those hours of hanging out with Jeremy in the tattoo shop in Rome were good for something...
So that made knowing my parents were having a blast in Athens a little easier because at least I was having fun too. Then yesterday I went to the gym and did work all day. Last night was Danielle and Lee's last night in Vidalia (they are basically the only people I hang out with here) so I hung out with them for a long time and said a sad goodbye. I don't know if we'll keep in touch or not, but hopefully we will. And today was just lather, rinse, repeat without the fun times to look forward to. Gym and school work. All day. With a quick trip to the grocery store interspersed.
So I had to kill time for a bit before I get back to the gazillion things I still have to accomplish this weekend. I have to get a good (almost complete) draft of two different things done, finish a paper that's due Monday, and get all my rec letters/transcript requests/GRE score requests organized for PhD programs. If I can get all that done by tomorrow, I should be doing good to relax next weekend when Aura comes. By the way, in case anyone is interested, here's the list so far for PhD program apps--UGA, Emory, UT in Knoxville, USC in Columbia, UNM in Albuquerque, OSU, and Harvard. I may add one or two more, but I think that will probably be all of them. My top choices are UGA and Emory honestly, because I don't really think I want to leave Georgia. But there are definitely other factors that might mean I'll end up somewhere else. I just want to have choices. Even though everything turned out great for my master's, I never really thought I would be at GA Southern until I realized it was really the only choice I had.
And so there it is. I guess I should get back to work.
I've been in Vidalia all weekend, even though Hannah and Brannen both went home this weekend and went to the fair without me. It was very sad, but I've managed to make it through the weekend without getting too upset. My parents went to Athens on Thursday and saw the Duhks with Hannah and William, and I would have loved to go to that also, but at least then I actually had fun plans that didn't include school work. I went to happy hour with some people from school (including my prof) and ended up hanging out with him and a bunch of his friends at the tattoo shop in Statesboro until almost midnight. It was a good time though, they were cool people and it's been a while since I've been in big group like that and only known one or two and still felt really comfortable. Maybe all those hours of hanging out with Jeremy in the tattoo shop in Rome were good for something...
So that made knowing my parents were having a blast in Athens a little easier because at least I was having fun too. Then yesterday I went to the gym and did work all day. Last night was Danielle and Lee's last night in Vidalia (they are basically the only people I hang out with here) so I hung out with them for a long time and said a sad goodbye. I don't know if we'll keep in touch or not, but hopefully we will. And today was just lather, rinse, repeat without the fun times to look forward to. Gym and school work. All day. With a quick trip to the grocery store interspersed.
So I had to kill time for a bit before I get back to the gazillion things I still have to accomplish this weekend. I have to get a good (almost complete) draft of two different things done, finish a paper that's due Monday, and get all my rec letters/transcript requests/GRE score requests organized for PhD programs. If I can get all that done by tomorrow, I should be doing good to relax next weekend when Aura comes. By the way, in case anyone is interested, here's the list so far for PhD program apps--UGA, Emory, UT in Knoxville, USC in Columbia, UNM in Albuquerque, OSU, and Harvard. I may add one or two more, but I think that will probably be all of them. My top choices are UGA and Emory honestly, because I don't really think I want to leave Georgia. But there are definitely other factors that might mean I'll end up somewhere else. I just want to have choices. Even though everything turned out great for my master's, I never really thought I would be at GA Southern until I realized it was really the only choice I had.
And so there it is. I guess I should get back to work.