11 days late, 8 days away!

ELEVEN DAYS.
So the Fourth of July Holiday happens on the 4th, right? Maybe I've gotten it wrong all these years, or maybe I should run outside and very politely (through gritted teeth) tell the kiddos in my apartment complex that they are ELEVEN DAYS LATE with the fireworks.  Don't get me wrong, I LOVE fireworks, celebrating the 4th, and think it's exciting when I hear/see fireworks for a few nights after the holiday, BUT, really?  Literally every night since the fourth, there have been random incidences of "American cheer."  

Maybe it's worse because I'm on the first floor directly in front of a "yard" parents dump their kids to play in, and this is where said kids feel that it is necessary to shoot off black cats, and whatever else is loud and obnoxious, sporadically between 10 and midnight.  Maybe, too, my nerves are a little on edge because I have a full plate of school work to do before graduation, tons of cleaning to do before family gets here, and now I have to wait four more days before my sweetheart leaves the rig and comes to Denver to see me. Or maybe it's the loads of laundry and piles of dishes mocking me.  (Which I could be doing now, I suppose, but why not vent instead?!)  Either way, I just don't exactly appreciate the random, shocking firework displays outside my patio door...

EIGHT DAYS.
As much as I may soon regret my perpetual end-of-my-MBA-program countdown, I just can't help but say, 8 days left! It is definitely a bittersweet countdown.  I'm a school junkie--I love the atmosphere, the learning, the people, and the intelligent interaction, but the busy-work, and late-night study sessions will not be sorely missed.  In eight days, I will walk across the stage, an MBA graduate.  The magnitude of it still hasn't completely hit me, but I haven't had too much time to really think about it.  In eight days, I will have my second college degree.  In eight days, I will be unemployed, in debt, and hoping to find a job that I will love to do.

Hmmm...my bittersweet scenario.  But, before I get too ahead of myself, I still have a business plan to write, an IT case to write and a Finance final to take.  Baby steps...


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