Graduations and Jobs

[sal_amanda]

I'm done with grad school.  Again.  If I ever even joke about getting yet another degree, please slap me. 

I really do feel like it puts my life on hold, and since the economy blows right now, my life continues to be on hold until some more jobs open up at schools locally.  Awesome.

However, I do still have some part-time work at a local college in the office where I did my internship.  It's flexible to my schedule and it's good experience.  And they have money they need to use up so I'm working steadily at least until the end of June.  Then they'll figure out what they can give a couple of us for the rest of the summer until I go back to working steadily in the fall.  I'm keeping my fingers crossed that something will open up there, but since they've been laying people off, probably not likely right about now. 

And I still have the adoption agency I'm doing contract work for.  It's hard to predict how busy that will keep me.  The pattern tends to be that they have no cases for me when I have nothing else going on, but I get one at the worst possible times when I'm super busy.  I always make do, but I swear it's like they know sometimes. 

As for this graduation, I do not plan to attend the actual ceremony.  I didn't particularly want to go to my MSW graduation, but John sort of made me and since it was only the school of social work, I knew most everyone and it wasn't horribly long.  This one is for every single graduate student at Buff State.  I don't want to sit through that and I won't make anyone else sit through it, either, especially Nora.  It's a shame, though, because I actually feel like I have made a lot of friends in this program, whereas I only had a couple close ones in my social work program.  But there's a social the night before so I guess I'll finally squeeze in one social gathering.

I really could have gone my whole life without attending an actual graduation ceremony.  My undergrad one was just very sad for me, not to mention unbelievably long and boring since Geneseo held only one graduation for absolutely everyone.  The MSW one irritated me by not letting me sit with who I wanted to sit with.  And let's not discuss how I had to sit through three entirely separate ceremonies when John got his masters from UVM.  I suppose I'll go when he finally gets his PhD, but there better only be one ceremony for that one.

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[i-am-solid.livejournal.com]

Shortly before my undergrad ceremony, I get a call from mom telling me I had better be going and walking across that stage and not even considering skipping it. I'm guessing one of her friend's kids pulled that and thought she better nip that in the bud.

[sal_amanda]

Well, we attended the Geneseo one, but she sort of missed me crossing the stage because they butchered the name so badly that she didn't realize it was me until Sean went right after me.