It's been a few weeks, so I thought I'd take an opportunity to update my blog.
First, thank you for the thoughts on Mag, I'm happy to report that in this past month she has miraculously "stabilized". It was as if the sheer mention of putting her to sleep made her improve overnight. I'm not naive, I know it's not an answer to my prayers or anything, this will be a continual downward slope, but if stabilizing and regaining some coordination prolong that slide, I'll take it.
I've enjoyed a few week hiatus from school, after a pretty grueling 6 week Ethics class. Now onto oral interp, which should be easy-but again it's a 6 week course so it's a lot packed into a little time. I'm fortunate my weekends are slow at work, and they allow me to work on homework during slow times. After that course, I'm tackling an 11 day career dev course, which should be a piece of cake, I think it's just a capstone course to my associate's degree. I'll then enjoy the entire summer off, and then next fall finish up w/ my last 2 courses. . . It was such a relief registering for my final two courses.
Work is 'going', now that I've been into the swing of things for about 3 months-the excitement has worn off, and the reality of this particular job has set in. And that is that this is strictly just a job to me, it offers little fulfillment or satisfaction-but does offer me more time with my kids, decent pay, and benefits. What I'm struggling with is simply not applying myself to my full potential in the IT field, I'm working in the field-but more as a bystander. Weekends are fairly slow, and the work environment is government based; therefore, very political, ie: lots of bitching and backstabbing. Luckily I'm only here for 24 hours a weekend, so it rolls off my shoulders pretty easy. Plus coming from a liberal academic background, that kind of stuff just didn't really happen in my previous position (I know, I was lucky!). I knew coming into this position I would probably struggle with this aspect, so it comes as no surprise; I'm just not sure how I want to handle it.
