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home from work and school bump.
i don't wanna do homework now.

OTM

WITH YOU BOTH ON THIS

I seriously need to start going back to school or doing something organized beyond the office because just work + home + work + home is not cutting it

Yeah, that seemed like a good idea to me when I decided to go back to school, too.

Right now I am questioning my own sanity for doing it, though.

tom get a hobby or something, but school is, wow rough. esp after you've been out for years. all i dream about now is being able to go to work and come home and have my evenings again.

We have to do this presentation, 15-20 minutes for TWO POINTS. My group's topic is "diabetes mellitus, type one." I was so punchy at class tonight that I suggested that perhaps, since "creativity" is one of the parameters for the grade, I should do a diabetes-related strip tease. (Seriously, for two points... why even bother?)

i had something similar for the print culture class i did: we had these weekly group blog assignments where we had up to 20 pages of reading to do, plus research, and then a bunch of questions to answer, all for 1.5% of our final grade.

yeah, it would make somewhat more sense if it was in the context of a weekly assignment... but the whole thing just seems bizarre and disproportionate at this point. All I can think is that if I show them my stretch marks, they'll think twice about ever giving this assignment to another class!

You will be my eternal hero if you actually do a diabetes strip tease.

diabetes strip tease

ha ha, you know the worst part is that in the car on the way home I was trying to figure out how to make a strip tease fit into the subject matter. I suspect this is the result of 3+ hours of lecture affecting me.

tom get a hobby or something

Never hurts, that approach.

k yeah nowhere near done w/ all this reading but can't keep eyes open.

sara, your diabeetus striptease is gonna be awesome.

I'm no good at structuring my free time is the issue with hobbies

yeah, the problem w/ all that is that when you go to school it's not about structuring free time anymore. they own your soul. there is no free time. there is no win.

They even own your strip teases. It is very sad.

there oughtta be a law!

I would teach Tom to crochet, I think, as a hobby. Crocheting is nice because it is easy to do and easy to un-do. Also very warm if you are making a big blanket. AND it can be social (talking and stitching = very easy to combine).

Downside: might make you seem like a menopausal housewife.

listen, I don't want another hobby, I want some more responsibility besides 1. trying not to get hit by vehicles 2. feeding a cat 3. showing up on time 5 days out of 7

mainly because unless somebody else is expecting more from me than that I'm a complete waste of space for way too much of the week
I think I just went from dealing with too little free time/me time to dealing with ALL OF IT AT ONCE so I'm still very much not used to it and can't get a grip

I get what you are saying - I am just feeling the weight of the other side of that equation so heavily that it is hard to think of a productive suggestion.

fwiw, I'm a lot happier being in school than not being in school. I like the brain stimulation and the social aspect, and even feeling annoyed with unreasonable assignments (because, as a group, our cohort is all in it together). I really worry that having an actual job will not be the same; it's been so long that I really don't remember!

You shd get into road cycling, Tom :D

So I hereby endorse your application to medical school/law school/pet grooming school/whatever else.

Or marathon running. (It seems to be a thing.)

Or become a professionally accredited accountant :D

:(

btw, nursing school is mostly women and maybe half of our class of 26 is single - I imagine this is true in other places as well. Just sayin' - you could meet new and interesting women AND learn to suction tracheostomies!

I think I'd rather run a marathon than become an accountant. And I don't enjoy running.

i don't know how you found school the first time round, but tombot you seem like school would really suit you now - you'd probably have the self discipline to get a lot out of it. what kind of area would you be looking at getting into?

a second master's degree, this one in public policy
I have until november to apply for the spinrg semester so no worries, I just have to make it through the summer without losing my mind

this thread needs a new damn title

nothing against my good folks over at space shower tv

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best of the early anagrams

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do it, tombot. i think i remember you talking about going back to school ages and ages ago. you'll be poorer than you are now but way happier.

I totally think you should, too, Tom.

Alas, what is left of my brain cells are giving up for the night. Sleep well, ITR people. <3

i don't care what you do tom

i bet you would if i burned your house down lol

truth arson

tombot would you stay where you are, or move for school?

oh I'm planning on going part time during the day before I have to go to work, I wouldn't even bring it up if my employer didn't provide a partial tuition reimbursement program

my last master's I got practically for free going at night on lockheed martin's bill

I think that tom and i should travel the world fighting crime

also, i am drunk

ohno

it might be true that i am currently microwaving jimmie dean sausage biscuits in order to figure out what direction is lying down

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good luck to me !!!!!!!!!