The class is over. I finished my final about an hour ago. I really enjoyed the class, and I'm going to miss it. I'll have another next semester. But these are stopgap measures.
Again, I face the question that's chased me the last few years. Do I go back to grad school? I have an M.A. - and a fat lot of good that's done me, though it did get me my current job. That was my original plan, but I went about it completely the wrong way and didn't get accepted to the program I had applied to. My back up plan was to go to library school. That didn't pan out either, due to a confluence of reasons which are long and uninteresting (though I did get accepted that time). After I finished my thesis, our financial situation was a little shaky, so I got a wage slave job. I've managed to do fairly well, moving up from a temp into the job I have now in under four years.
But I can't say that I'm really happy. I like the people I work with, and the job's okay, but it's not fulfilling. There's a part of me that would like to satisfy that grad school wanderlust. There's the other part of me that reminds me of what a pain grad school was - I have a love/hate relationship with research paper-writing. And Sweetie hasn't exactly been supportive. When I bring it up, he asks me what I will do with my doctorate (as opposed to what I can do). He tries to steer me more towards what he refers to as "actual skill-building activities" like computer coding or drawing.
I've got a lot to ponder over break this year....
10:21:40 PM 
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