Summer days drifting away...

This is being typed on my handy dandy android phone. Yay, technology!

I'm thoroughly enjoying my summer mini classes, an online health class, The Aspects of Aging. The online class is not as hard as I thought it would be (I've only taken one other online class before, & I made my first C. I told myself I would never take another online class again--oh the things a sooner graduation date will make you do), but it is by no means easy.

I'm also taking a history course entitled Black America.  We opened the course with American Slavery & will end it with the civil rights movement. We are currently reading a book called American Slavery by Peter Kolchin; I am enjoying Kolchin's book. I actually have to have the rest of it read by tomorrow & a 4 pg. book review on it due on Thursday (which I should probably be working on now), but I need to get this blog written since I've been so neglecful of if as of late.

The only bad thing about these summer classes is that they are mini mesters, so everything is so condensed. I would really like to take the Black America class during a full term, just so I could go more in depth with the subject. To sum up my summer school schedule: 2 classes in June, the above mentioned, & 2 classes in July. Then four classes in the fall & graduation in December!

I've also been searching information on grad schools, & I plan to apply to UA to get my masters in Library & Information Studies. Wish me luck!

In relation to my masters, I've been searching for jobs in order to try & gain experience for my career. Luckily JSU has a position open at their library for which I've already applied. I won't know anything until the end of this month, so wish me luck! I'm really really REALLY hoping I get the job. I've never wanted anything so badly in my life.

Because of my summer school schedule I've taken a cut in hours at work. This is both a bad thing & a good thing. It's bad because, obviously, I'm not making as much money. It's a good thing, though, because I have enough time before my class starts to get a full workout in at the school's gym, & then get my hourly cardio session in at the gym after class ends & before picking up the hellion from school. Needless to say, I'm still keeping up the hard work at the gym. I've even had four people in the past week tell me I've lost weight (see uploaded progress picture). =D

Speaking of the hellion, he has been doing wonderfully. He starts kindergarten in the fall, & this makes me so upset but also so happy. He graduated from preschool at the end of May, & at his graduation ceremony he even got to read to the audience! Proud mommy is proud. (I've uploaded a picture from his graduation that is supposed to be after this paragraph, but seeing as how I am technology-retarded & this is my first post from my phone, Idk if it will be here.)

My birthday is coming up this Saturday. I'll be an official antique-- 25-years-old. I'm mentally much older though; I feel like I'm ancient! Birthday festivities will be taking place. You can find my pictures on instagram, seeing as how I don't have fb anymore (6 months & counting!). My instagram name is lwlmthompson.

I think that is all for now, kind folks. I need to finish this book & start my book review. Let's hope I don't fall asleep in the midst of it. Wish me luck!