Posts Tagged ‘school’

going back to school!

Sunday, April 5th, 2009

On April 11th I go back to school. Not university since I’m graduating in May (still nervous about the actual ceremony!). This is going to be a 15 week course that will supposedly land me a job. I really want to start working again but I know I’ll have to ease myself into it before going full out. So, it’s going to be pharmacy tech, 15 weeks, then 120 hours of clinical. The only downside is that the school is an hour away and at 8:30am. Ugh. I plan on going to sleep ultra-early the day before and taking sleeping pills (full dose, not half strength) to ensure I don’t stay awake looking at the ceiling.

So, I’m relieved that I’m going to be doing something productive again. I tell myself it’s only 15 weeks, which isn’t bad. Clinicals can be arranged to be a lot closer to where I live so that’s not an issue. I’m nervous but I think this will be a good change. I know I dropped out of the workforce against my wishes (had to do with medical insurance, which I couldn’t not have, and my disability) but I really want to try to get back into it. If I fail the first time, I’ll try again, again, etc.

Wish me luck! :D

head and heart are contrary historians

Monday, December 29th, 2008

It’s nearly 2009 and I feel so much and so little has happened this year.

This is the first year I was not hospitalized since before I turned fifteen. I never even came close to it despite one slight downturn over the summer. So slight I nearly forgot to mention it to the doctor. I’m back to seeing him every three months instead of every month.

It’s funny. It’s not through my own doing that I’m well or not well. It’s just medication, nothing more, nothing less. I’ve accepted it’s a chemical imbalance and not something I can force myself out of. Not that I’m helpless. I just don’t know how to word it. Responsible for my behavior but unable to stop the feelings that motivate that behavior is the closest I can come to it.

This is also the year where I end my career at my current school. I’m planning on further schooling but in a field not related to my major (Creative Writing). I love to write but I don’t feel I have the drive or desire to make myself write every day. It would become a chore and I also don’t think I’d make much money as a short story writer and poet.

My cumulative GPA is 3.455. Not fantastically high but not the 3.2-something of two or three years ago. I looked over my grades and I did terribly in the more science/psychology-oriented classes which is funny considering I used to be a psychology major. I hate statistics.

Well, a happy new year to you all! I hope your year has been as good (at least, decent) as mine has been.