a quick recap of the rest of October

I have been slacking on blog entries as of late, so I'll run down a few of the many things that happened this month, and what I learned:

1. As I mentioned in my last post, my PSPR paper was accepted by Excelsior. I have my asynchronous chat session starting in five days, and then it's officially a wrap. This project has been dragging on for over six months, so I'll be happy to never have to think about it again.

2. It is pointless to bring a health assessment textbook onto a commercial coach flight. Every other page opens to a full color glossy photo of something that the person next to you would rather not see, and they are far too big to read discreetly.

3. There is no way on God's green earth that I'm getting everything done this semester that I wanted to, so I'm going to stop trying. I'll be happy to pass the HAPE course; anything beyond that will be a bonus. Life's too short. Excelsior offers the capstone class in May as well, so I'll only be pushing graduation back four months, not eight. I have the beginnings of a plan for the TAC course, but I'm not going to worry about it until HAPE is in the bag.

Plenty of non-academic stuff has been keeping me busy as well. . . maybe that will turn into another blog one day.