Today is Lady's first day of graduate school. She's excited and nervous, as I remember being when I started college many, many moons ago. Between work, class and studying, she'll have less time to spend with me which means I will have to spend more time doing, well, I dunno. I'm sure as hell not gonna sit next to her and watch her read, that's for sure.
Whatever it is I'll be doing instead of sitting next to her and watching her read, I'll undoubtedly be proud of her for working full time and going to school full time. I know how tough that is.
I was going to school full time and working full time while finishing my undergrad studies back in NY. I think I was going to class four days a week and working four days a week, yep, a full eight day week. No, really, I had class three full days and work three full days plus a half day at each. So, I really didn't have a 'weekend' or a 'weekday' - they were basically the same. The hour-plus trip from Westchester to NYC was a nice time to catch up on sleep that I didn't get while spending time out with friends at night and on weekends I'd normally be able to pull off on a 'normal' schedule. I also spent many a night on campus getting to know Lady. The first time we met was at around 2am as I was in the computer lab editing and rendering a video project. I kicked her butt and her friend's butt in Dr. Mario — if anyone in the Philly area would like to challenge me to a game of Dr. Mario, feel free to ante up. The rest is, well, history.
It's gonna be a hard two years or so of work and school, but you can always look forward to that debt at the end of the rainbow! And who knows, one of us could hit the lotto or something along the way.
Lady's last night of non-academia was spent making a delicious meal of Grilled Eggplant and Goat Cheese Sandwiches and cucumber and tomato salad. The recipe is up at Messy and Picky, but we forgot to think ahead and take pictures of the delicious concoction, we were both too hungry and it smelled too good. We watched this season's first episode of Real Time on On Demand [woo hoo to having cable again!] and a late night viewing of Ray which was wonderful — now I want a Ray Charles album.
Congratulations!!! Also, I know a place that serves that type of eggplant sandwich. It's where I used to work. YUM!
Posted by: phedrang | August 29, 2005 at 02:39 PM