- I semi-recently came to the conclusion that Mom's right, I would be a ridiculously good child life specialist. I have applied to a graduate program in child life, and received my unofficial acceptance email yesterday.
- Currently am awaiting my official acceptance letter, which will come once all my recommendation letters and my statement of interest/goals (sent today) are received.
- Also currently am trying to find a place to live while at grad school in case I 1) do not receive enough financial aid or 2) do not put in my application soon enough to receive housing. If I get in to traditional housing, I may end up rooming with a freshman. Bummer for poor roomie, having to live with a 23 year old grad student with no interest in partying whatsoever.
- Also discovered recently that there is an orientation a week from Friday morning (gee, thanks for the advance notice) so will be going down there to investigate campus and such. Pick up a newspaper and check the residentials, see if a kind family has a garage apartment.
- Incidentally, learned this week what 420-friendly means. Craigslist, you live up to your shady reputation. Yes, you do.
- Feel the need to say that 1) I discovered at a concert in 2007 sitting on the lawn with my dad that I am allergic to second-hand marijuana smoke and 2) it's illegal, guys, get over it and 3) there have reportedly been studies recently that show that it is much more harmful and addictive than originally thought. Therefore, I am not, nor shall I ever be, 420 friendly. Sorry Mary Jane.
- Am nannying for a very sweet little girl who does/says such funny things. We sing Skinnamarink a lot, but she is little and doesn't sing it all. I sing skinnamarinky-dinky-dink skinnamarinky....and she fills in "DO!" and so on. Today she hit her head, I hugged her and comforted her like a good nanny, and we said "I LOOOVE you" until she stopped crying (not long) and then she walked off saying "I love you in the morning and in the afternoon..." Can I just say that I am an excellent influence, here? I have her singing Sharon, Lois, and Bram, saying "Awesome" and am slowly but surely teaching her that when she wants "Kate" to do something, she says "You do it, Kate" not "I do it?" (that's right, the little darling has her pronouns confused! I'm really mean, too. Whenever she says "I swing? I swing?" I stay where I am and say "you are swinging!" We go back and forth like this a lot. [back and forth...swing...inadvertent pun!] Eventually I say "who do you want to swing?" and she says "Kate?" and I say "then say 'you swing, Kate'" and she says something that kind of sounds like that. Progress is slow...). I don't currently get to take her anywhere because her carseat is complicated and they keep that in the car. Am praying that this summer when baby brother is born and mommy is home and needs her out of her hair, I'll be able to take her to the zoo and the water park and the gardens and the library (two as of Sunday and love books) and the regular park...etc.
- I went to a plant swap on Saturday and got rid of about 75 irises. You can't tell.
- Also received butterfly weed seeds, purple aster plant, spearmint plant, phlox plant, and white oxalis (to go with my two pink ones).
- Going to take classes this summer and hopefully volunteer at a camp for children with medical needs (sadly, I can't make it to Camp Broncho, the asthma camp, but perhaps can do the sickle cell camp) and at the childrens hospital with the child life department.
So, that is my life in bullet points right now. Kudos if you kept up!
When it gets warm again and I've had a chance to work in the yard more I will show garden pics. Seedlings are dropping off one by one so my cutting garden may consist of...coneflowers.
3 comments:
haha... i kind of hope you get to room with a freshman. that would be fun. she won't know that you are a 23 year old grad student, so you should totally play it off like you're an oober excited freshman, too. then you can break the news to her in some creative way. like baking a cake that says, "just kidding! i'm not a freshman. i'm boring." but then you can show her differently by being your really fun self. but maybe throw in a boring day. keep her guessing.
and i like that 76 irises doesn't even make a dent. and you'll have marigolds on friday!! i still need a check from you, ps. :)
I can give you cash friday afternoon (payday!!!). Is that okay? It's $16, yes?
And yeah...that would totally be cool. Especially if my fishie room mate wanted to match bedding or something freshman-like. Mom has a friend in New Braunfels who asked a friend who asked her husband who owns a car dealership so knows like a boatload of people so I probably may find someone who would rent a room out to me (for maybe cheaper...). I'd like to be closer to campus than New Braunfels, though. We'll see.
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