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Apr. 1st, 2011 09:30 amI feel so overwhelmed. I feel like whatshisname Dante in Clerks - "I'm not even supposed to BE HERE today!" but "I'm not even supposed to BE AWAKE yet!"
I had to take Grant to work, so that means get up at 7:30 and drive for half an hour or so.
Then, many a phone call about my financial aid garbage for school. Melissa, the stuff I'm dealing with, it's hard for me to imagine a phone call fixing anything. Thank you for your offer and I may use it in the future but I think I'm just dealing with the fallout of having dropped out unceremoniously (due to medical hoohaw) too many times too many years ago. For instance, they want documentation for why I am taking this one math class for the third time, but the two prior times I took it were in 2000 and 2001, and all my medical records from that time are shredded and gone. So the best I could do was get them letterhead stating I was a patient of an OB during those semesters but that there are no records left to document a damn thing beyond that. I'm always dealing with something like this situation this morning where I learn that my financial aid award for the summer is not showing up due to a thing where Spring grades have to be posted before summer awards get approved, but I didn't go during Spring, so I'm gonna have to have someone in financial aid manually apply my award since fafsa does show it - except all the financial aid people are in a meeting all day today. It needs to get applied so I can file an appeal that can take over two weeks, which is beyond my April 11 payment-due date, so I'm gonna need a payment extension from the Dean of Student Services, because I was urged to register when I did since the classes I needed were filling up... SO OVER IT.
I have all of A and A's schoolwork for the day layed out ready. Isaac's friend Adam is coming over from 1:30-4:30 (so I should really clean up). I have to pick Grant up at 5 and be at counseling by 6 and have a dinner plan. I want to take a nap pretty desperately but my kids aren't even up yet and have to be drug out of bed for our continuing mission in improving schedules. Blah blah blah.
DID I MENTION I'M ON DAY 3 ofeating to kill myself Eat to Live? I really have a hard time coping with it without a lot of sex to make up for the food I'm not having. Basically I have to be shoving something in my body one way or the other as often as possible o_O
Today I'm contemplating changing my choice of major. I am psych so far but contemplating social work after some research into income and job options. Either way I'm open to/planning on a Masters...it requires more research into Florida licensure laws. I can be a licensed social worker who does therapy sessions - like the one I saw for PTSD, who did EMDR with me and all that - with a Masters....then again it looks like I could be licensed for marriage and family counseling with a masters in psych, like the dude Grant and I are seeing now. There are a lot more options for work in mental health and rehab facilities of all types with the SW degree though, you have to go on to a doctorate level for many things in psych. There are also about a million $25-40k a year jobs you can get with just a BA in SW whereas you can be a manager at Starbucks, with a BA in psych.
For whatever arbitrary reason, a masters degree sounds really challenging and intriguing in a doable way, to me, time and effort and money wise with my local schools and kids' ages factored in - whereas a doctorate is just like...not realistic, would take way too long, and isn't even something I'm interested in pursuing.
Ok, back to This Day.
I had to take Grant to work, so that means get up at 7:30 and drive for half an hour or so.
Then, many a phone call about my financial aid garbage for school. Melissa, the stuff I'm dealing with, it's hard for me to imagine a phone call fixing anything. Thank you for your offer and I may use it in the future but I think I'm just dealing with the fallout of having dropped out unceremoniously (due to medical hoohaw) too many times too many years ago. For instance, they want documentation for why I am taking this one math class for the third time, but the two prior times I took it were in 2000 and 2001, and all my medical records from that time are shredded and gone. So the best I could do was get them letterhead stating I was a patient of an OB during those semesters but that there are no records left to document a damn thing beyond that. I'm always dealing with something like this situation this morning where I learn that my financial aid award for the summer is not showing up due to a thing where Spring grades have to be posted before summer awards get approved, but I didn't go during Spring, so I'm gonna have to have someone in financial aid manually apply my award since fafsa does show it - except all the financial aid people are in a meeting all day today. It needs to get applied so I can file an appeal that can take over two weeks, which is beyond my April 11 payment-due date, so I'm gonna need a payment extension from the Dean of Student Services, because I was urged to register when I did since the classes I needed were filling up... SO OVER IT.
I have all of A and A's schoolwork for the day layed out ready. Isaac's friend Adam is coming over from 1:30-4:30 (so I should really clean up). I have to pick Grant up at 5 and be at counseling by 6 and have a dinner plan. I want to take a nap pretty desperately but my kids aren't even up yet and have to be drug out of bed for our continuing mission in improving schedules. Blah blah blah.
DID I MENTION I'M ON DAY 3 of
Today I'm contemplating changing my choice of major. I am psych so far but contemplating social work after some research into income and job options. Either way I'm open to/planning on a Masters...it requires more research into Florida licensure laws. I can be a licensed social worker who does therapy sessions - like the one I saw for PTSD, who did EMDR with me and all that - with a Masters....then again it looks like I could be licensed for marriage and family counseling with a masters in psych, like the dude Grant and I are seeing now. There are a lot more options for work in mental health and rehab facilities of all types with the SW degree though, you have to go on to a doctorate level for many things in psych. There are also about a million $25-40k a year jobs you can get with just a BA in SW whereas you can be a manager at Starbucks, with a BA in psych.
For whatever arbitrary reason, a masters degree sounds really challenging and intriguing in a doable way, to me, time and effort and money wise with my local schools and kids' ages factored in - whereas a doctorate is just like...not realistic, would take way too long, and isn't even something I'm interested in pursuing.
Ok, back to This Day.