  So,  last night,  when I got home,  I took the best nap. nbsp;  I know that sounds stupid,
 or juvenile,  but it was so great.
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 Well,  initially,  it wasn’ t all that great.
nbsp;  I got home,
 took off all my clothes ( shut up,  it’ s my nap)  and got into bed and closed my eyes… and then the dogs next door starting fighting and scuffling and making all sorts of noise.
nbsp;  So,
 then I went into the living room and got on the couch.
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 The only problem with the living room is that my ceiling fan makes a repetitive noise when the chain knocks against the light fixture… plink,  plink,  plink… you get the picture.
nbsp;  So,
 then I had to go hunt up some ear plugs and in the process of doing that,  discovered that the dogs outside had stopped fighting and got back into bed and went to sleep.
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 I took great satisfaction in knowing,  as I drifted off,  that if I had not dropped my class,  I would,  at that point,  still be stuck in traffic on 635.
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 Ahhhhh…  I think my blogging is going pretty well.  &
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I’ ve been journaling since I was a little girl and am finding that blogging is just more convenient.
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 I am a little late in my entry today.
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 I usually do it as soon as I get to work,  but today I was a little distracted because we are having a client visit,  so I had stern email about cleaning up my desk when I got in.
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 Whoops.
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 Also,  I didn’ t log in until 8: 01 today ( 1 minute late)
 because the frigging receptionist was not at her desk,  so I practically had to empty my backpack out in order to find my keycard.
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 Before that,  I was even going to be a couple of minutes early… grrrr…  I have absolutely no plans tonight.
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 I will probably curl up and eat dinner while watching C- Span or something.
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 That’ s what I’ ve been doing lately,  watching convention footage and whatnot.
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 Have you read the quasi- debate between Michael Moore and Bill O’ Reilly?  You can catch it on the Drudge Report,  if you haven’
t.
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 I say quasi because it was really child’ s play for Mike.
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 He made O look like an idiot ( not that it’ s all that difficult to do)  Here’ s the big thing that’ s been plaguing me lately ( other than relationship- py stuff which I have vowed not to discuss on this blog because it would take over and not leave room to talk about anything else)  –  I took about a three year break from college,  which means that all my friends have either graduated or are nearing graduation while I am still 2- 3 years away.
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 Should I feel bad about that?
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 I try not to,  but it’ s really hard.
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 Yes,  I know it was my decision to take such a break,  but I really was trying to establish my life as a grown-
up.
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 I don’ t get any financial help from anyone,  and I just preferred not to struggle at minimum wage jobs and work part- time in order to go to school at the same time.
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 I mean,  people do that all the time and good for them… I just didn’ t want to do that.
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 I guess the other option was to take out student loans,  but I have friends who will be paying off loans for like 10 years.
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 I don’ t want to start my life out that way.
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 I already have shaky credit from lessons that I had to learn myself …  I just didn’ t want to dig deeper in.
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 Anyway,  so I’ m finally motivated to go back to school again and all that good stuff so I can become a teacher and do something that I love… Only now,
 it’
s going to take so long for me to graduate.
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 Oh,
 well.
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 As long as I stick my plan ( see entry from 7/ 26)  I think I’ ll survive.
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 I plan to move to Denton in about a year,  year- and- a- half in order to take all those upper- level courses that are only offered in the middle of the day.
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 My plan is to find a decent job in the area where I can work weird hours…
or marry rich by then so I can just loaf around and be a student.
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 Both of these options sound a little unrealistic,  but hey… stranger things have happened,  I guess.
 Anyway,
 I will try to do something exciting this evening so my entry tomorrow is not quite as ridiculously boring.
