last day before the rest of my life.

friends, i did the unthinkable. i quasi-quit my internship. yes... after feeling tremendously underappreciated for the work i've done (mainly, revamping the entire community investment index and benchmarking not just sectors, but subsectors, for standard and best-in-class CI initiatives), i've decided... i'd much rather be just a student, and nothing more, for the first time ever since sophomore year of college. i don't know why, but for some reason, i like to stress myself out by having a gazillion and one things hanging over my head. for once, i'm going to sit back and breathe. if i can do that, even for a month, i can say that i have accomplished something.

oh, should i qualify the quasi-? basically, i didn't throw down my security card and storm out of the building crying "exploitation"! i simply said that my schedule could not accomodate 20-hour weeks of work endentured servitude (it really can't... i have about 3 or 4 20-page papers due this semester!) and then, because i couldn't help myself, i added, guiltily, that i would not leave them hanging on the database i promised to build for them. thus, i would work remotely, up to five hours a week and not a second more, and deliver the said-database at the end of the semester. if not sooner. okay, technically, i'm still an intern... a freelancing intern. but i can't express how much i'm going to enjoy not having to come into the office. and, sadly, i actually really love tinkering with microsoft access... so it won't really be work. it'll be play.

i'm motivated to devote more time to school, in part, by the fact that my classes are so effin' awesome this semester, and i want to really spend time getting into the readings and preparing for class. i'm pretty much done with my snore-core (okay, really, only about 3 of the 8 were boring) and now have a schedule full of uber-fun electives from the adult learning program. adult learning is a fascinating field, and as someone who might have a career as an adult learner (j.k.) i love learning about how i learn. (how meta, ce n'est pa?) i already have very exciting posts planned about some class material (i know y'all are on the edge of your respective seats). and can i just mention that my strategy professor is mr. big's doppleganger? that's one sure way to capture my attention. don't worry, i'll behave myself. (apparently, i'm too old for scandal).