To All My Friends and Family...See You in Vancouver or London!

October 11, 2008 - Saturday

To all my friends and family...see you Vancouver or London!

Yeah you read right. I've now embarked on my next mammoth undertaking. Oh come on. You can't act that surprised. Like you didn't know I was gonna be up to something. You know me, and for those of you that do, you know I can't stay away too long from something new and exciting. Soo....yeah this next chapter involves grad school and I've officially submitted one application with three left to do.

I've decided that I most definitely want to go back to school for a variety of reasons. Chief among them being that I'm about over this real world stuff. It's been interesting now that I've been in it for about six months now, (last year really doesn't count since even though I was working and earning money, I could save every dime because I really wasn't paying rent or anything like that) and it's fun to think that there are times that I can truly can places I want and do what I please, but the other flip side of that coin is...if I have the energy to do it! Which most of the time, I don't. Not mentioning if I can get the time off to actually do it, hence the question when all of my friends back home keep asking me when I'm gonna visit. They don't seem to understand that unlike me, they can just announce to their teacher that they'll be missing for an upcoming Friday class and get the notes or whatever ahead of time, assuming that their teacher is of course, okay with that. But me, on the other hand? I'm not able to just get up and walk away. If I want to sneak an extra day off, I've got to do it with the understanding that I'm simultaneously losing anywhere from $88.00-$150.00 a day. Which in the grand scheme of things is bad. I did that earlier this week when I didn't come in Monday or Tuesday, and it was a very relaxing time to not work, but it's gonna bite me in the ass on that next paycheck. Speaking of which....

I lost my wallet. In downtown DC. In Georgetown. .With everything in it.

With that being said, I've managed to cancel all my cards and get them all reissued to me, (which is a pain in the ass, since Michelle Williams' new cd is out and I can't even purchase it without a credit card!) so that's fine. But I had my state ID in it and my original social security card. My mom's gonna kill me. But I can get it replaced. I'm just not sure how at this particular moment.

Anyway, the reason for this blog. I've decided to go back to school and I've set myself on this path yet again because I want to go back to the world of academia. More than that, I want to go farther than my parents' did in their education. It was nice because now three of us have an official degree and graduation day couldn't have been anymore perfect if I had planned it out myself. But I want to do it again. I want to go further and know that I have a Master's degree. Hell, I'll probably end up with a docorate, just to say I have it. So now that I've thought about it. The next step. Where to go. I've been thinking about this for the last few months, and I've decided that I don't want to stay in the States, if I can help it. I've been here for years and after the total exhileration that was Germany, I definitely have to leave. So with that in mind, I thought about the places I've always wanted to go. And there's Canada, England and Australia.

I'm still working on Aussie land because I can't seem to get any kind of reputable information off any of their schools, but we'll see about that. As far as the other two go, I've locked down a school in both places and I'm submitting applications to them both. I've already done one to Roehampton University in downtown London, and I'm working on getting the next one in for the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. Hopefully one of them will come through, and then I have to make a very, very hard decision as to which place I'm gonna go. Coincidentally, I haven't excluded the States completely, and I'll be applying to UNC-Wilmington as well. But it's my third choice at this point. We'll have to see. I don't know where this course of action is going to take me, or even if I'll get into the schools, but the way I look at it, you can't get in if you don't apply!!!

P.S. I've been watching with absolute horror and disgust at the way that the political race has been going (I've already voted for Obama by the way), and I can't believe that the Republicans are getting away with televisioned hate speech at their rallies. Some people may call that extreme, but in my view screaming "terrorist, kill him, and treason," count as hate speech in my book. What the hell is McCain and crew doing? They make it sound like their going to erupt in rioting if Obama is elected, which he will be. This kinda worries me....