Thanks, Gud. Some days it hits hard.

I just hate that I've become THAT student. Calculating the bare minimum needed to get the bare minimum grade to stay in the program. It isn't even that I have an issue with the course material. I just haven't been able to brane the last three weeks and have let things slide.

Suzi, I worked during my master's at AU, but that was a differently scheduled program and, frankly, I phoned in a lot of my work.

For my master's at Loyola, I didn't even try to do both.

I support you in whatever you need to do. And I'm amazed that you brane at all, with everything you manage.

I was so hardcore about the coursework, it took me at least 6 months to stop feeling like I had to be studying, or feeling guilty for not doing so.

Now that my dementia patient has died, I'm in the same weird rut.

All that to say, I think you are doing it right. What you do with your learning will, no doubt, be very different from your classwork. Getting through it is the goal.

What you do with your learning will, no doubt, be very different from your classwork. Getting through it is the goal.

That is one of the odd things so far. Everything has been fairly applicable to my current job whether it is something I currently do or something I've observed. Which should make it all easier and yet.

While taking on DCC has added another pull to my time and brain, I'm excited about the work involved. The assistant director above me is going to the same school though she is pretty much a full time student working on her bachelors in project management with an IT focus while I'm working on my masters in project management with a business acumen focus. But it is nice to have someone to whine with. It also means that my director (who is her boyfriend) GETS when neither of us can brane during the last week of a course.

But it is nice to have someone to whine with. It also means that my director (who is her boyfriend) GETS when neither of us can brane during the last week of a course.

Three's Company, huh? That is a nice confluence of matriculation.

How cool that your studying supports your work.

It's not that mine didn't, but I've just learned that no one ever asks for your grades...unless it's medical or law school...so it really is just what you make of it!

Gud, I was just thinking about you! How's everything?

Things are okay, maybe not brilliant, but okay. And busy, very busy all the time. I did go to a Meetup thing that popped up in my e-mail. It is a writing group and I worked on a novel for an hour or so and then the people there read excerpts and gave feedback. That seemed like a good thing to do since interacting with people is not one of my strengths. Still struggling with depression though. I'm also trying to work up the nerve to approach some local independent book stores about my novel. I don't expect that to be very productive though. My whole experience with novels is close, but not quite. Feels like the story of my life, I feel like I'm always falling a little short.

no one ever asks for your grades...unless it's medical or law school...so it really is just what you make of it!

YES! I just need a B or better to stay in the program. I have a 4.0 so far and for all my whining I should get an A in this class unless I really screw up on this paper. (I'm about to check it against the rubric before I turn it in). Once it is turned in, I'm 1/3 of my way to graduation!

And....done. Now to shake it off and try to chill out before crashing for the night.

Restful sleep and anticipation of more than adequate grades to you.

Five hours of sleep last night. I can't remember the last time I got two nights in a row of restful sleep.

Almost time for the weekly 9:30 meeting that my coworker and I are supposed to alternate attending. Odds that she won't be online in time, and I will get roped into this stupid thing?