sharylneedsmoney

So, it is that time of year again. As I finish up the semester (high stress) I also spend my days searching for possible summer jobs (high stress also). Here is what makes me laugh: the past few times I’ve been to Red Deer all I see is “help wanted” signs, they tell me that a fast food place will pay me $10.50/hour starting, yet the jobs advertised for students are still averaging under $10/hr! So first, if everyone is so desperate for workers, why aren’t there more ads posted in the papers, job bank, etc and second, why aren’t people willing to pay educated staff a little more? I understand that the experience I get should be making up for the difference in wages but a girls gotta eat when she goes back to school. So I applied earlier this year to jobs that will give me work experience and look good on my resume, jobs that I want to do, but it doesn’t look good and I will probably end up working somewhere else, somewhere that pays more but won’t give me the work experience that I need. Oh well! That’s my latest thing!

That’s right! You heard it here first folks! I will be done this semester on April 20th!!! That’s right, I got my final exam schedule! Can you tell I’m pumped? Some might say “super pumped” but I don’t want to over-do it!
Why is this so exciting? Why am I pumped? I’ll tell you why. This means that in just over a month I will be done my 4th year of higher learning (not my degree but we are “glass-half-full” people today) and 4 short months after that I will be on my way back to this fine institution for an even shorter 3 1/2 months to complete my degree! I think that there was poor grammar back there!.And think about that for just a minute. I’ll pause…… I will be done my degree in less than a year!! That means that I can start my real life in the real world and do grown-up things like support myself or actually talk to my friends on the phone and not through the world wide web (things tend to loose something when using emoticons)
Now, I do realize that next christmas seems like a really long ways away, but it really isn’t! You should really start your shopping now! And While your at it, pick me up a graduation card cause I’m so close to being done that I can taste it!!

And I do realize that i sound a little crazy right now but I’m not sure I care.

What else is new? Not much. Classes to go to, papers to write, articles and chapters to read, tests to be written, semesters to be planned, laundry to be done. So that’s what I’m going to do right now: throw some laundry on while I do some reading in preparation for those tests/papers!

And no, I’m not crazy!