Yes to Staying In More

Ten years ago (almost to the day, in fact!) I started working at a cafe in my neighborhood. I left last year and it's still strange to think how many major life events occurred there. I didn't go straight to college and those major milestones of the late teens to early twenties all occurred there. I still refer to friends I made at that time as "college friends" because it's about that period of my life, less so the setting.

Since school started last month our schedules have become crazy. 11 hour days five days a week. Phew! When I was 20 I was working 11-12 hour days four days a week; getting to work at 6:30 and staying up until 2AM half the time (and consuming copious amounts of alcohol to boot.)

How did I do it? Our alarm goes off at 5:45 M-F and I'm usually in bed by 9:30 at night. Sometimes I crash on the couch watching "Fringe" or "The West Wing" around 8:30 I won't deny. BuzzFeed really nailed it with their "Life In Your Early Twenties vs. Your Late Twenties" list.

So, what have your favorite nerds been up to these last few weeks? Sleep! Homework! D&D! Renn Fest!

I humbly present one of my favorite photos of the two of us (short of wedding photos) ever taken:

We went for the Snooty Rulers look.
(There are two more people in the shot but since they don't
write a blog I don't think it's fair to post their photos.)

Classes are kicking my butt a bit. ASL is really cool but really challenging since I'm super upcoordinated. Phonetics is my favorite so far because it's so much fun and nerdy as all get out. I mean, we had to make magnets for an assignment. IPA Magnets. Dee-lightful.

Hearing Science has been tough, it's a lot of math which hasn't been too bad because my Trig professor from last year was so great and I have (a little) confidence. I prefer the physics to the straight math refresher, admittedly. The other two courses are rather blah, mostly material I have learned before. The downside to changing majors as many times as I have is that I have taken A LOT of basic psychology and development courses. Sometimes it's tempting to skip but I only get one a semester so I have to be careful.