And in other news…
La La La La Life goes on. That’s for sure. Back to work, almost back to school, and it just seems like more and more to do all the time! Hope it all keeps me young, at least! So yes, we had a lovely weekend. Sunday was one of those rare, just good Sundays that come along every once in awhile. Sunday is usually a good day, filled with rest and church and other good things, but it’s actually pretty rare that I leave church on a Sunday feeling as refreshed as I like to feel. I taught in Relief Society, which necessitated a bit of preparation on my part. That’s probably a lot to do with it. If I take time to get myself in the mood for Sunday, I usually get a lot more out of it. We also got our “married now” speaking assignment, we’re going to talk in Sacrament meeting on September 30. I’m not sure how I feel about that. When I was a missionary, speaking in public rarely scared me (unless I was speaking in Spanish.) Now, it’s not that it SCARES me, it’s just that I feel more comfortable just doing my thing on a smaller scale. I have plenty of time to prepare and feel comfortable though, so we’ll see how it goes. John’s excited, and rumor has it, LIKES to speak in church. So maybe I’ll make mine short and sweet and let him enjoy the podium for awhile.
In other news, I have officially begun the search for a grad school program. I figure, if John has to hang around a bit longer, I might as well use the time to keep going. I’m planning to take the GRE in November some time, to give me ample time to apply to a few programs at BYU. I know that most BYU programs are highly competitive, but I’m hoping that I can make up for my ONE academic mishap of last semester this semester by being highly attentive to my classes. I took a logic class last semester that, long story short, I let drop. I had a bunch of classes, an almost full-time job, and a new boyfriend/fiance, and I had to let something slip. I didn’t want it to be school in general, so instead, I combined all of my rebelliousness and lack of motivation and let it go in this one class. I barely passed. Mistake! But what can you do? I beat myself up about it for a little while (as this has never, ever happened to me or more justly put, I have never let it happen to me before). I was happier when I told myself that it was time to just move on. So yes, I will graduate in December. I’m taking two philosophy classes, William James and the Philosophy of Art, two science classes, Bio and Physical Science, and then Book of Mormon Part II. I’m hoping science doesn’t kill me, the bio one actually looked interesting, to some degree. But who knows. John is taking it with me, so at least we’ll suffer together. With our opposing work schedules (I’ll work in between classes during the day, and he’ll work 5-11 at night) it may be the only time we actually see each other this next semester.
As a Harry Potter update, I think I’ll be done in a couple of days. I’ve taken to reading a bit more at night, just trying to get this monster of a book done. With all the wedding stuff and all the coming home stuff to do, I was too distracted to really get into it. The past week, though, I’ve gained some ground and now I find myself wondering what’s next. I read until about midnight last night, which resulted in some very odd dreams. I don’t really remember what they were, but most of them involved giving a small puppy (that could talk) a bath in a kitchen sink, running from impending doom, and going back to school in Scranton will the old gang AND A husband. I’ll tell ya, weird stuff.
So that’s the update. John asked me if I was excited to start school again. I told him yes, but it a way, I’m kind of dreading it, too. With everything else there is to do, I kind of feel like I’m about to jump on a treadmill, going from a dead stop to speed 10. Maybe I even wrote that in here somewhere already…but it feels like the best description of what next Tuesday (day schools starts) is going to be like. Bring it on, I’m ready.
