That's "Miss Workaholic" to you!

Word of the day:
LAGGARD
Noun: A person or thing that moves too slowly or falls behind.
Adj.: Falling behind; slow.

I will no longer be laggard in my graduate studies. (Had to use that word of the day.)

Today I registered for a course at Bank Street College of Education (which is the graduate school connected to the school where I teach -- Bank Street School for Children). I will be taking Foundations of Modern Education, a class that I hear is quite heavy and I'm sure will have piles upon piles of reading and papers. I'm actually really excited about it though, because according to the course description it has a partnership with the Lincoln Center Institute. It should be a pretty interesting class, notwithstanding the endless work I'll be doing.

On Monday night I went to an open house at the graduate school and spoke with two of the advisors of the degree program I've been looking at doing at Bank Street, and they convinced me that I should just apply for matriculation into the program this fall... so apparently I'm in the middle of grad school applications? Well, one grad school application. I'm not applying anywhere else. No need to. This degree will be as close to free as I can possibly make it. Plus it would really be incredibly stupid to think about doing my masters degree anywhere else at this point. I have a good solid job that affords me two free classes per year. I have to finish my degree by August of 2012 to keep my NY State teaching certification (which I really need to keep if I ever want to teach anywhere else), so unless I want to pick up and move at the end of this year, I need to just grow up and get real.

Besides all that... I'm thinking that once I'm insanely busy with work, grad school, teaching private lessons, and all the other minutiae of life, I won't have time to think about whether or not I love my job/apartment/location/place in life, and I may in fact come to find that I *do* love (or almost love) all of those things.

Here's to that.