Finally able to take a breath
The thing that I'm looking forward to more than anything else is the fact that when school is over in 5 weeks, I'll no longer have anything hanging over my head. It's just such a terrible feeling to constantly know that anytime you are having a good time you could be doing something that would benefit the all important and omnipresent GPA. It sucks because I honestly don't give a shit about my GPA other than for the fact that I may actually need it one day if I want to go to grad school. Damn you GPA and your longevity.
The feeling of having a large paper due is kind of similar to the feeling that you have when you know you have done something wrong and you don't have the balls to say anything. Like when you side swipe your mothers car while driving your fathers car...you know you should say something about it, you just can't bring yourself to confess. So all day long you sit there just stewing about it, knowing that eventually it'll catch up to you. And sure enough, when your father goes out to wax the car a few days later...it's as apparent as a ton of bricks. (True story). It's the same way with having a paper due, and having Laura there to wisper in your ear that you have 1000 other things to do...Grrrr.
So Laura is out of town this week on business, I don't have any papers or anything due in the next week, so I finally have some down time which I'm kind of looking forward to. Don't get me wrong. Laura isn't a stressor or anything, it's just nice to know that you have zero obligations when you come home from work. There won't be any discussion about what I'm going to have for dinner because....well...I'm a cheap bastard and I'll probably make some rice and chicken which is super easy but rather bland. I feel like I'm acutually going to be much more active this evening when I get home. I have this strange desire to clean up the house. It's fairly messy and it will keep me from doing what I should be doing. That is...if I still feel that way after sitting through my terrible seminar this evening.
So after going over my finances, I have come to the realization that I am going to be able to pretty much take the entire month of May off... Off you say? Yes, as in just not going into work. Seeing as how I hate being a legal recruiter (AKA Resume Reviewer) I think this is a wonderful idea. It'll give me plenty of time to just relax once I'm done with school, go on vacation with Laura and overall really just clean up all the little things in my life that need to be addressed prior to starting my new job. It's gonig to be great and I can't wait.
Laura and I were able to find our lease agreement last night. We thougtht that we had to vacate our apartment at the start of June and as it turns out, we have till the end of June which is great. Gives us plenty of time to figure out if we're going to stay there and how that's all going to work out. I think that I've said it before, but I'll say it again...I HATE moving, so hopefully if we are going to be moving we'll be going somewhere new, fun and interesting, not to some shoddy apartment on the upper east side.
Anyway, I keep getting these terrible over the shoulder glaces from my boss, so I think that I should probably get back to doing a better job of faking work.