I'm back!

Now where have I been you ask?...
~Started my Masters in Social Work program in the end of September. Class from 8am to 8:30pm Monday which mean I wake up at 6am and have to fight Portland traffic by 7:15 in order to make it to my class. It's pretty much non stop from then on!
~Internship! As part of the MSW program I have a year long internship where I am required to log 167 hours per term. That makes for 17 hours a week. So I am in class all Monday and then Wednesday and Thursday are full time internship days. Friday usually finds me at some kind of training meeting and Tuesday is my erron/ homework day. I haven't found much time to update my blog or spend time on the Internet.
~reading, reading, reading! Grad school involved more reading then I was expecting. I was often reminded of my days rooming with Jesse who was a English major...I have to read more then that. My usual weekly reading is about 150-200 pages per class. That adds up to about 500+ pages! I'm a slow reader too.
~writing papers. Jackie can attest to this. She said a few weeks ago "It seems like you are always writing a paper" and I am! I have turned in 7 or 8 papers between Sept 30 and Dec 1st. The average paper was 10 pages in length, the last one was 15! I was talking with a friend applying to grad school and he reminded me that in undergrad we would have one paper like that all term. Oh well you get used to it!
~being sick! I feel like as soon as the term started I was sick. I ended up with a very bad sinus infection. The only reason I got this taken care of pretty fast was because I live in Oregon and you can't buy anything besides Tylenol sinus or Theraflue over the counter. So Sudafed, Advil cold and sinus....all require a prescription here in Oregon! I called up to see if I could sweet talk the doctor into giving me some without me coming in....that didn't go over so well. I had to give the nurse all my symptoms so she could tell the doctor and the doctor insisted he needed to see me that my symptoms didn't sound good. So I went in, somewhat disgruntled as I had to leave my internship about 2 hours early and drive from Portland down to Corvallis, and when I said all I need is some drugs to hep clear up my sinuses the doc said....well bonus you get antibiotics too!
~being tired! As if grad school wasn't enough to make a person tired I found out on my impromptu doctors visit that my thyroid level has been way off for the last year. I have been on medication for hypothyroid since I was a sophomore in high school. This is the first time my level has been off so far that I required the highest level of thyroid hormone they make! Sweet! So that helped me not feel so sleepy all the time and run down.
~visiting family. I'm sure many of you have read their blogs and know the details. There has been the addition of a new baby to the family and a few complications with mom's health along with that. Birthdays, Halloween,and Thanksgiving and lots of fun in between.

Wish I had some pictures to share...but I don't. I will have to steel some from Jackie since most of the fun outings have involved her boys. School is all done now and I came to C* for the weekend and I may be staying longer because there is 4 inches of snow and the forecast is for it to stick around and maybe continue snowing!