So on the Today show this morning there was a girl who was born with Spina Bifida which affected, among other things, the formation of one of her feet. Because of infection and other things and after 57 surgeries she ended up having the lower leg amputated, but is doing just fine as a sophomore in high school with her prosthetic. She lives in Oklahoma, and as part of the Today Show’s Christmas in July, she received a full scholarship to OK State with tuition, room and board, and books for four years, whenever she gets to college.
I’m happy for the girl, but I’ll admit a certain bit of jealousy that she got the full scholarship. Because then I think that even though I was 3rd in my high school class I didn’t get a full ride anywhere. Almost at Mizzou, where I probably should have gone. All because I fell in love with Wash U while a frosh in hs. Sigh. I’d really love to not be paying off student loans right now. Seems like I keep having super huge emergency payments due (mostly centered around the car, bless its little 12-year-old heart, er, engine) so I’m not making any money, seems like. Cece talks about getting a second job. I don’t want to do that, but it sure would be nice to actually have money coming in instead of paying it out. At least I have a nice bike out of it…

I’m turning into an old woman. It’s sad. My glasses prescription went up a notch in both eyes. Boo for myopia. And I have meetings next month to discuss ‘retirement planning’ aka investments which scare me, since I know next to nothing about investing other than when we played the Stock Market Game in my gifted class in middle school I did pretty well with my ‘st. louis stocks.’ And I still haven’t finished Novare, which is sort of infuriating. But I feel like if I have time to write I have time to study for the MCAT–
EEEEEKKKK! (freakout moment. Less than a month away, now)
–and thus shouldn’t be wasting time writing. It’s not wasting time, I know, but it’s a C activity, since it doesn’t EVER have to be done, while MCAT is certainly and A activity. Sigh. Good news is that I’ll be able to take off some days next week. About time. Probably won’t be able to take any off for a while. Suppose, if I am to entertain the idea broached by Alex of going to Vegas with some of his psych friends I would have to schedule it now 😉 Hopefully by the end of the year all these study things will be going perfectly and someone can help me out. Ah the joys of having too many vacation days and not enough time to use them.
There are days when I feel like I’m still wandering around clueless at work, and I feel so young there. I mean, I know there are other people close in age (there’s a girl who just graduated sitting next to me, for heaven’s sake) but I definitely feel like everyone else knows what they’re doing and I don’t. Alas. And I’ve still got kidlike tendencies, what with Harry Potter and playing outdoors and tapdance…perhaps I’ll finally get to take a class next semester. We’ll see, I guess.
I hope I didn’t bore you to tears. Not too much exciting happening here. I have to be at work early the next three days in a row, which is sad. Thank goodness the car is working so I don’t have to get up an extra hour earlier to catch the shuttle. I hope your life is more exciting than mine. Perhaps it would be better if I had more sleep 😉
So now I’ll have to choose what to write about for NaNo, if I am able to do it…I have two interesting ideas which probably can’t be combined and one good opening sentence which possibly could be for either. We’ll see.
Better get going to the writer’s meetup, then. Au revoir!