I'm done!

Right now, sitting next to me, are my two final completed internship applications.

I should be celebrating, and I am! But, in a really low-key non event way. Graduate school is a long pursuit in the same direction, so to speak. Except that much of the time, you're sprinting. It's like suicide sprints interspersed with grade card day at school.

It's interesting all the things that one must hold aloft during any graduate training. There's internship applications, the equivalent of writing a 10 page paper every day for a month after doing months of compiling and research mixed with the anxieties about where you want your career to head and where you want to live.

But, I still have clients, and classes, and oh, that dissertation thing all up in the air, too. I guess that explains why my closets are heaping messes and that my eyebrows are in severe need of a taming. Umm hmm.

Take Monday, for example. I was seeing clients by 8:30 AM. In between client hours, I was photocopying my surveys so that I could spend my lunch break collecting data from students in a class where the professor was out of town. After a non lunch, there were more clients and the requisite paperwork. Followed by an evening spent editing essays and cover letters for dear friends who have done the same for me. Somewhere in there I ate dinner and baked cookies (ate those, also). I am amazed and pleased at how much one can successfully handle concurrently. I'm also abhorred by such overfunctioning. I often wonder what would happen if I just said "NO." Would things still get done, eventually? Would I see any ill effects?

So, now I brace myself for the joys and the rejections that will start coming soon. The waiting part is hard for me. 18 applications in the mail. I wonder how many interviews I will get? I could have some interviews as soon as two weeks, and have some interviews as late as the first week of February.