As the title to this post (and the lyrics to a 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee song) suggests, there are a variety of changes happening in and around the J and L house. I'm going to try to give a thorough and long overdue update.
I've finished three weeks of school at Binghamton University. Generally, people fall into one or more of the following categories: they are really nice; they are really pretentious; they are from Long Island. Also, I HAVE NEVER SEEN SO MANY UGGS! I haven't quite figured out if/where I fit in. Maybe I need my own Uggs. Maybe not.
Regarding the classes: they are incredibly difficult. In my first Intro to Human Development class, Dr. Merriwether told me and my 89 classmates that most of us will receive a C in her class. YIKES! That is not good enough!
There is a lot of controversy going on about BU in general and their basketball program specifically; and the controversy, unfortunately, involves my program (read about how this convoluted situation affects me in this week's NY Times article). Basically, my program, Human Development, will be getting exceedingly difficult to overcompensate for how easy it used to be (the dummy basketball players were funneled into HDEV because the program wasn't overly difficult and they needed to get good grades).
So, after spending a good portion of the past three weeks freaking out about how difficult school is going to be and about how I can't attend all the necessary review sessions and study groups because of my work schedule (not to mention the many extra hours of studying I don't have time to do in order to keep up), Jesse and I decided it'd be best if I give notice at bagel town. Granted, I haven't been thrilled with bagel town in a long while, but the impetus to move on so abruptly sincerely was my need to thoroughly focus on school.
Unfortunately, eliminating my (exceedingly minimal) income will certainly have repercussions. At this point, we're concentrating on how important it is for me to do well and finish my B.S. so I can get a real job. One of the more unfortunate repercussions is that I have to (further) postpone the arrival of my baby hedgie. Boooooooooooooooo!
So, I've covered work and school. Now, onto a sad note. Our close friends Emily and Philip, who have been having some pretty serious marriage difficulties for a while, have split up. If that's not bad enough, she's from Pittsburgh and he is from Rochester. That means that when they split up, they both leave town. It's so sad; I know I'm still processing it, so I can't imagine being in either of their situations. It hits me occasionally; I can't believe it's true. We had so many great times with them and it's hard to deal with the fact that we'll likely never be with them in the same capacity again.
I know I've covered a lot; so much has happened all at once! I know I am hoping for some respite soon; I am sure J is, too.
Some good news: J has been back to work since Tuesday and is healing nicely after his hernia repair surgery. I'm still doing all the manual labor around here, but that's nothing new. Ha! I am hoping he'll start driving again this weekend so I can stop hauling his gimpy ass around (again, that's nothing new)! I kid. You know I love my husby!
