GRAD SCHOOL

So I'd like to keep my new job as a professor. And even though I spent 19 years in the TV news business, I still must get my master's degree in order to remain a broadcast journalism professor.  Three evenings a week, I drive 50 miles one way to take graduate level classes for my Journalism, M.A.  I've done this since last summer and must continue to do it until this coming December in order to graduate.

But I have to say.  This semester is just about too much for my wee brain to handle.  I've got to write two very involved research papers and put together a huge presentation on propaganda in the presidential elections from 1976-2000 (all at the same time) in addition to a bunch of other work and oh yeah, I have a job.  A job I like.  And I want to keep.  Did I mention that already?  I believe I did.  Sigh.

And as if juggling a full time professor's job and 9 hours of grad school isn't hard enough, I'm determined to keep my 4.0 average.  So I have to do all of this perfectly.  With the exception of first and second grade, I've never had a 4.0, or straight As or whatever.  Don't get me wrong, I was a dedicated student.  But you could see from my transcripts which classes I cared about and which ones I believed were useless and stupid.  I'm trying to be a grown up now and not play such games.  But I want my 4.0 intact.  And over these next four weeks remaining in the semester, I just might drive myself insane trying to do it.

Dear everybody in my life, I apologize now for being crazy for the next four weeks.  Thank you and I hope we're still friends by the time May 13th gets here.

Oh dear.  May 13th.  I just realized.  That is Friday the 13th.  Whew. This semester ends on a Friday the 13th.  That's quite an omen.  This could be interesting.