A Grown Woman: We're on our way...

The first 2-3 pages of our 2000 word papers in Literary Criticism are due Friday morning. I just finished over three pages and 900 words so I'm printing out my copies for class right now (1:00am). We had a choice of The English Patient or The Waste Land to write on. You can guess what everyone else chose... I decided to be different and take the harder route and chose The Waste Land. Now that I'm over my cold I think it's going to be a good paper.

The entire thing isn't due until next Friday, so after this that paper is going to sit until Tuesday.

Starting tomorrow evening I'll be frantically pounding out my 3000 word research paper for my Chaucer class. It's about the Blood Libel stories and Chaucer's "Prioress' Tale". Nice and bloody and gory - it's going to be a fun paper. Oh yeah, and I haven't started it yet and it's due MONDAY.

I just discussed an entirely different approach for my Age of Elizabeth paper with my professor today. So again I'm going to be different and instead of writing about The Faerie Queene again I'll be writing about Spenser's Epithalamion. And that's due Tuesday.

I'm sure it all sounds boring, but now that I'm not sick I'm having fun and am thriving under the pressure. And after the papers? School is all over except for the Finals.

I'm so glad that you are feeling better and that you are getting your assignments finished up.
I've never read the English Patient or even watched the movie. heh. All the hype about it just turned me right off.

Thanks for the comment about school, the course I'm looking into is a Early Childhood Education course, it's 8 semesters long (4 years) and 2 of those years are to get my BA from university.
It'll give me a better chance at a good job after graduation, instead of just taking the 2 year course.
Plus I'll need to take 2 years of ASL (sign language) and some extra special needs courses if I want to actually fulfill my dream of working with children who have disabilities.

I've been talking about doing this for a few years now, and Hubby is just tired of listening to me dream, that's why he's pressuring me.
I think that this would be really good for me, and I know if I put my mind to it that I really can do it.
Because this is an Early Childhood Education degree, it's mostly hands on teaching, working closely in a classroom environment and with children on an almost daily basis. So sadly the on-line option isn't really one.

I am scared about my kids grades as well. Well actually I'm only afraid of EB's grades. Dot loves school and when she gets homework she gets right on it. LB worships his school and would never come home if it was possible.

But Hubby is here, I just have to remember that he's capable of shouldering some of the weight that the kids bring. For some reason I tend to take it all on and not share any of it with him.

My house is always a mess, but Hubby and I have been talking about hiring a cleaning service once he gets a raise at work. I know that you went that way for a while, but I can't remember why you stopped the service.

Posted by: Kat at May 2, 2008 6:14 AM