Done, I'm done and on to the next one...

Gotta apply for scholarships now... at the reference area of the Cal Poly library... still totally disoriented by the fact that I am actually here (it's kinda like an aftershock -- I was just in class yesterday and the instructor started talking about graduate school classes and the unique-ness of the class we, as students, were taking at a "Cal State University" and I went "Oh WOW. I'm at Cal Poly!" -- again.) I'm assuming this type of mental behavior will continue to take over my brain at various unspecified moments.

For now, I must focus. Let's begin the process of sucking up for college money, shall we?

If I ran any faster, I would be nvisible

For what it's worth, I'm scrambling my own brain just to keep my mind preoccupied and off the panic that is ensuing per my upcoming "big girl" college starting date. It's only 11 days away, and I've ordered the main texts, purchased the instructor-written/published documents from the college bookstore, taken my daughter to the campus (just so she could see where mommy's going to go to school), and dug my old bookbag out of my closet in preparation for riding the bus to and from school. I even bought a thermos to take yogurt and such with me to school to avoid laughing hysterically at the on-campus restaurant's food prices.

With so much preparation, I might be turning into a topical hemorrhoid treatment here any day (ANY AND ALL PUNS INTENDED, THANK YOU VERY MUCH). For now though, I'm just gonna sign off and try to relax. Until we meet again...

More of the same...

Just another day in the life of a Cal Poly Dolly --he he. Only TODAY, my financial aid finally came through! (It's amazing how much time hand-wringing can actually occupy).

Now that my mind is freed up for more real-life stuff, and while we're on the topic of school, my child is in the process of completing the last week at school and our 30-mile roundtrip commute will now be coming to a close, thank you very much. I know 30 miles isn't much by big-city standards, but this small-town girl is beat! I never knew how much commuting really takes out of you! Until now...

We're both happy the drive is over. Maybe I can get some things done on my house. But we'll just see about that. I've decided to count down the days until the quarter begins. So here we go folks!

Today marks: 15 days to mental impalement. Just kidding. But 15 days, nevertheless.

PRE-pre-planning

I'm going to attempt to contact my instructors today to see if they are using new books this quarter. I gotta get used to saying "quarter" instead of "semester" since I've been on the life-installment plan of neverending semesters since circa 1994.

I'm grateful the books I checked out at the bookstore were both under 30 bucks a piece. That's a STEAL in Cal Poly-land. I also talked to a future-grad-coming-this-quarter yesterday afternoon. She claims that the Cal Poly Dollys aren't ALL that way. Hard to believe but we'll see. Of course, my cynicism stretches from years of being out of high school and being a single mom trying to put myself through college. But, WE'LL SEE. ;-)