Free! Free at last!

Well, for the next three weeks at least.

I handed in my last term paper for the summer last night at 6pm. Sigh of relief.

The class was easy in kind of a rediculous waste of my time and money way. But, its another three credits in the bag.

And now I have some free time. OOOOOooohh the things I plan to get done! Haha, if I accomplish just a few, I'll be soooo happy. (Especially if one of those is the kitchen remodel I have in mind!)

Sooo...

I have a confession to make.

This poor graduate student has hired a cleaning lady.

That's right.

And to be perfectly honest....

I might love her.

You see, I would so much rather play in my flowerbeds and my garden during the nanosecond of free time that I have each week. That meant that while my house was "picked up" it was by far not "clean". Even though looks were deceaving.

This might be one of the best decisions I've made in recent memory.

Sanity restored. Or very nearly.

Is that light I see?

There at the end of the tunnel? A teeny glimmer of hope? Far off in the distance? Please let it be so!

I am exactly, finally, half way through my graduate degree program. Geepers. It only took me... ohhhh... 2.5 years to get here!! Geepers. (I know, I said it twice, I'll say it again. Geepers.)

But... I'm finally at the point where... after this Monday's final exam is completed, I only have one more first summer session left. Just like I only have one more spring session left.

I don't know if I'll graduate next August, or next December, but man... that feels good. Getting down to the... "only one more of these left" categories.

Oh free time, I might see you faintly sparkling off in the distance, a tease that feels just the teensiest bit more attainable every day.

But just a teensy, miniscule bit.