| Tonight is awesome. I'm visiting ISU this weekend, to celebrate Tim's birthday. This evening, we went to opening night of The Who's 'Tommy,' which just happened to be amazing. Full house, too. Most def deserved all the hype. I got to see some of my beloved ISDT dancers (which made me miss dancing even more than I already do.) Now, here I sit in Tim's dorm room, typing this, drinking blackberry wine (I got it at the Amana Colonies last weekend, when the girls and I went to Oktoberfest), and listening to awesome Norwegian folk music. Tim is studying for the GRE, which he takes tomorrow morning. (he says he's effed, but I know that studying has little correlation with doing well. It takes the brains. Which he's certainly got a surplus of.) I needed a weekend like this. The past two weeks at Iowa have been stressful to say the least. Luckily my hard work is beginning to pay off. At some point last year, one of the grad students in ISU's program said to me, "It's hard. You're just going to have to learn that you're not going to get the same A's you got as an undergrad." Well, here I am. I had 3 tests in the past two weeks, and I've gotten high A's on two of them. Not even those 'barely A's,' when you get an 89.6. I got two solid A's. The one I did poorly (ok, a lowish B) on has a good (but at the same time rather poor) excuse. Neurologic Language Disorders is my most loathed class this year. I abhor having to sit through it 3 times a week, and I simply am not interested in working with this population. My sentiments have little to do with the prof, I really just don't ever want to work with adults/seniors recovering from stroke. I don't care if it was ischemic or hemorrhagic. I don't care where the lesion was in relation to the perisylvian region. *shrug* It's a graduation requirement. I have to take it. They want us to be able to deal with a client from any population with any disorder, and I understand that, but I don't foresee any 5-year-olds having strokes. . . I hope. In any case, I am having an absolutely wonderful weekend. Tomorrow, after Tim's GRE is over, I foresee lots of fun. Dinner out somewhere, cake, Maggie's, Ted, more wine, more general fun and more friends. I should spend some time lesson planning, and reviewing the research articles for the coming week, but I'm sure I can do that while the birthday boy is in Peoria. Sometimes I feel like all I ever do is review research articles. Remember that one time I had to write 10 pages on that really crappy article? Oh yeah. That was last week. Ok. Time to sleep. |
