back 2 school

columbia university in all of its ivy league splendor

***sending Mucho Mucho amor to the techie guy in the computer lab (awww! i coulda hugged him!) that configured my laptop so that I connect to the wifi on campus…. translation: i can now surf the web in class! yaaaaaay! just kidding! ok, not really.

ahhh! autumn finally made it this week, thanks to hurricane ike. i mean, no sane person enjoys the devastation and destruction that comes with forces of nature but, you understand, right? right.

fall, how do i love thee? let me count the ways…

* sweaters! boots! sweaters! boots! – that goes w/o explanation!
* humidity is gone far, far away – i despise it and the sticky, sweaty feeling that comes along with it. our summers stink.
* the halls of learning – confession: i was one of those kids who looked forward to the first day of school. i’ll admit, something about starting all over and having new instructors and learning new things just made my lil heart happy! by about the third week of summer vacation, I was already bored.

and here we are in a another autumn and *gasp* i have started school (not in NY though... *sigh*) ! i find it amusing that in my last blog, I chronicled my finishing of community college. i took a 2 year break, except i didn’t know that it was a break. i figured - “hey, i have this little degree and i’ve lost the drive to pursue a big career so we’ll just stop right here.” or so i thought!!! fast forward 2 years to spring of 2008 - i was in new york and admiring the prestigious columbia university and i started to feel all sentimental and stuff and decided that i wanted to go back to school.

i rarely make big decisions so quickly.… i mean, Very Rarely. i am the queen of extensive planning. but the truth of the matter is: i got bored! i work 5 days a week at a job that i am thankful to have but for the self-diagnosed a.d.d. in me, it’s torture! sooo, i felt that i needed more mental stimulation. besides, i’m not married/having kids/etc or going to be in the near future so why not get more schooling, no?

so here i am, attending classes at the big university and i’m still adjusting (umm, i have to pay for the privilege of parking my car by buying a parking pass? craziness!) but it’s good so far! i’m a psychology major and my classes are great, especially “child development”…*sniff* i wish i didn’t have it only one day a week, LOL!

spring 2010, i’ll be done….or at least i think i’ll be, for now!

sorry, didn’t mean to be so long-winded…. i feel like a preacher!