My life for the rest of this year will be pretty tied up and I'm becoming anxious thinking of it. Three AM and I woke up, my mind reeling off all the different things I must do by next week Tuesday, for next Wednesday I have a geology lab, then must dash to the airport and will be gone till late Sunday night, followed by final exams. The Thursday of that week, I return to semi-full-time employment.

Congress passed an extension of unemployment benefits that would be beneficial to me in these circumstances. I need to keep checking on it and make sure I'd still qualify. The income I get from the job will of course be deducted out of the pool of my benefits, but that makes them stretch further and hopefully, will keep me and Rob on the same financial footing we've been on for the past year anyway.

Has it really been a year? :/

The summer will be rough for me schedule-wise. My first class in the morning (7AM!) Monday - Thursday is Algebra, following which I go to work in Seattle. In the afternoons, I catch the bus, Monday and Wednesday and every other Tuesday, I have night classes that will keep me on campus till at least 9:15PM (although thank goodness, the Tuesday class ends at 6PM). Nights this summer, I'm taking Practical Accounting. That would be two math classes in one quarter. Oy.

In the fall, the schedule will be slightly brighter. I won't have any day classes; my two final courses for my AA degree are a science (Intro to Computer Science, Monday and Wednesday, 7PM - 9:20PM) and an online math class. Originally, I intended to move onto the University of Washington evening degree program immediately thereafter, but I think I want to hold off on that. That would be two more years of never being home on Mondays and Wednesdays (and potentially Tuesdays and Thursdays) and I'm so tired of this racing around. I want to be competitive but I also want to enjoy myself a little bit.