Pain in the butt!!!

So, after all the hassle of having to register for my classes, and having a scheduling conflict with Child Welfare Policy and Social Work Research Methods, I had to try to get into Sociology Research Methods since I had been given permission from the Social Work department to do that, and I got permission from the SOC 601 professor to do that, I get all the paperwork filled out... and the class is booked up solid. So now I'm waiting to find out if I can get an override again from the same professor so that I can get a seat in the class, or see if I should just wait until the add/drop period to get it. Ugh... why does everything have to be a process?!?!?!?!

Okay, so I've been a slug and haven't updated this in a almost a week. But, things have been crazy busy, so I just haven't had the time. Sunday I got back from a weekend in Maryland for a cousins wedding. Friday I flew from Manchester to Baltimore and got in there around noon. I flew with an aunt, uncle, cousin and boyfriend of another aunt, and we met up with my grandad and his wife at the rental car place in Baltimore. We drove 40 minutes to our hotel, and met up with a bunch of the family (my parents and Katie included). We took over the back deck of the hotel and had snacks and stuff, and just vegged. I got a bit of sun that afternoon. Then at 5:30 or so we got to the wedding site, this place called Tavern on the Bay, which overlooks the water, and it was beautiful. It was an outdoor wedding, with an indoor reception. Good thing too, because it POURED about an hour after the ceremony started.
Saturday we spend the day touring around Annapolis, which was nice. There are some beautiful buildings there... and that would probably be a city I wouldn't mind living in... if I had that kind of money! Saturday night we went out sailing on The Woodwind II, a 74 foot schooner. SO MUCH FUN!!! :-)
Then Sunday I had to come home, which was kind of a bummer, but it was good I got home when I did because I had so much work to get done.
So yeah, that's stuff in a nut shell right now... The semester is almost over, YAY! But unfortunately I still have TONS of stuff to get done. I'm making some headway, but next week will be brutal, working on a research paper thats due next Friday, mostly.
AND... for anyone who hasn't either been told or figured it out (because I know there are some of you out there who are thinking it but haven't actually asked either one of us) - yes, John and I are a couple :-)
Hasta luego!

Happy Day

So I applied for this grant through the DCYF and the UNH Social Work department. I had to have 3 letters of reccomendation, an essay I wrote about why I wanted go go into child welfare, and have an interview with the grant committee. I would get my full tuition paid for the 04-05 school year, plus all fees, plus a $2500 stipend, access to child welfare training and resources, and access to travel for child welfare conference. I would also be required to work for DCYF for however many years I recieve the grant for (so if I go into the field after this year, I work for DCYF for one year). I totally got the grant! :-) It's like... all the pieces have fallen into place, FINALLY! :-) I called my parents and they were all excited, so we're going to party it up in Virginia this weekend while I'm away for my cousins wedding, and John is taking me out to dinner tonight to celebrate. Olive Garden, yum :-)

Stressed!

I hate this part of the semester. Someone remind me why I came back to school? Oh yeah, because it's better than what I was doing. Oh well. I've got this research paper for one of my classes that has been taking forever and a day to get decent resources on. Fortunately, I just got back an e-mail from a different professor who was able to give me a couple ideas of where to look. So now I have a 12 page research paper, a paper about 2 AA meetings that I'm supposed to go to that I haven't been to yet, 2 novels to finish, 2 more reaction papers, a paper about one of the novels, not to mention all of the reading to keep me up todate with the lectures. I guess I shouldn't be complaining... just wait until I get into my field study and will still have 3 or 4 classes along with that!

On the up side, I get to register for next semester tomorrow. Yay! Since I came back to school as a senior, I'm pretty much guarenteed to get into the classes I want, which is a good thing, since one of them is Elementary Sign Language/Intermediate Sign Language. I also have to sign up for Human Behavior and Social Environment 1, Research Methods in Social Work and Social Work Practice 1 (which is the pre-req for my field study) and Society and Morals. So I'm pretty psyched because almost all of those are for my major, which is always a nice thing to take classes in.

I was so sad that I didn't get to go to the beach yesterday. It was SOOOO warm out, like 87 or something like that, but I just had too many errands to run and stuff, so I was sad. I'll get over it though. It's not like it will never be warm again.

Okay, I need to go be productive now, since I just finished complaining about all the work I had to do!

Busy day

So today is my busy day of the week. I had my Introductory Criminology class this morning. Then I came home and took a shower. Now it's time for lunch, then its off to an SOSW meeting, and THEN I have an interview for the grant I'm trying to get for the next school year. AAAAHHHH!!! So everyone, at 2:30 today, there will be a national minute of prayer... okay, not really a national one, but if you think of it, say one for me :-)
I should probably finish getting ready. I gotta head back out the door in less than an hour and I haven't eaten lunch or changed my clothes or anything!
Happy Trails!

So... it's totally pouring outside right now. It sucks. I think I look like a drowned rat or something. Oh well.
It's been a decent week so far. It was nice to go home for the weekend and see my family over Easter. I will be so happy when this semester is over though. Not that I don't thoroughly enjoy being back at school, I'm kicking butt this semester, I'm just tired of school work, and I've got a list of books I want to read for fun and I can't start them because I don't have time to read anything if it isn't on a sylabus!
So I just found out last night my sisters boyfriend is a junior and she's going to the prom with him this year. AAAAAHHHHH!!!!! My mom is thrilled, she gets to take Kate shopping for a dress, and I'm thrilled because the prom happens to fall on a weekend that I'll be home! Kate was like, "Ahh! No!!!" She knows that I'm the photo happy one in the family.
Speaking of which - I wonder if my mom found my high school scrap book when she cleaned out the attic a couple weeks ago. I can't find it anywhere, and all of my high school photos are in it, my prom portraits, articles from when I was on the tennis team... all that good stuff...
Okay, I need to start doing some research for my research paper due at the end of the semester (I should be catching up on a bunch of other stuff though... guess who's not sleeping tonight!)
Happy trails!

Ick

I feel like dirt today, so I am glad I'm going home this weekend. It will be super to have a weekend where I have permission to lay on the couch and watch TV all weekend (Yes, I was GIVEN PERMISSION by my mom to do that!!). I've caught a cold, and so I just feel very blah. But on the upside, it's Friday, so that means I get to go home after classes today! YAY! It must be this time of the year, I've noticed a lot of people putting "I miss you, so-and-so" in their journals, and I know I've been feeling like I miss a lot of people right now. Kerry, Dave and Sarah especially, because they're the people I see the least. I miss you guys! Anyway, I've gotta finish up. I need to pay a visit to my dear friends at the health services pharmacy and pick up some sudafed and a cough supressant. Have a happy and safe Easter weekend everyone!

Stuff 'n' stuff

So I switched to Live journal, just like everyone else! Oh well, everyone else was using it, and then Kerry switched, so it works for me. Plus, I liked how you can put your current mood and stuff like that.
Anyway, I'm so glad this weekend I get to go home. I'm coming down with a cold, and I don't feel good, so it will be nice to be able to vege at home. And Sunday is Easter, so it's all good :-)
Okay, I don't have enough to write, so I'll catch y'all later!