Sooooooooo....

I've been gone awhile despite being on summer vacation, and I come back less than two weeks before I go back to school. I don't really have an explanation for the disappearance or the reappearance so close to the beginning of my senior year of college. That's just the way it worked out....

SO, here are a few updates:

• I got a second job at the end of May. I'm currently employed at Lane Bryant and Bath and Body Works. Yay??
• I moved. I no longer live 45 minutes (on a REALLY good day) away from school and work. I am a 15 minute walk from work and 30 minutes from school (on an average day). So YAY!
• I will not be visiting Louisiana until at least Christmas, if not New Year's. I thought I might make it there at some point this summer, but the new job and the old one and life happened, and visiting is just not possible. Not yay...
• I am not planning on law school anymore (for now, at least). Instead, I am focusing on getting a Master's in school counseling or school psychology. This means no LSAT, for now, and instead I am studying for the GRE...soooo yeah...lol
• I am not taking a year off like I wanted, which means, after next summer, I may no longer live in Chicago. It all depends on the programs I get accepted to and can afford. I am planning on applying to 3 programs in Chicago, but none of them are in the top 5 of my 8 schools (which, if you just did the math, means that they are actually my bottom 3...).
• In regards to grad school, I have 8 schools in 4 states picked out. 2 in California, 1 in Washington, 2 in New York, and 3 in Chicago.
• And finally, since I am a giant nerd, I CANNOT WAIT TO BE BACK IN SCHOOL! The 23rd cannot come fast enough. I am kind of really excited about my classes for this semester...but check back with me in September because that might change pretty fast...lol

Anyway, as far as classes this semester go, I did not go quite as crazy as last semester. I'm only taking 5 (15 hours), so that's nice. Since I am a senior and I, apparently, did a great job picking the classes I wanted to take, I had a bit of freedom in my choices for classes this semester, and it looks like I can pretty much take whatever I want next semester, literally. This fall I'm taking: Intro to Criminal Justice, Intro to International Relations, Psychological Study of Racism, Imperial Russia, and Learning. The only classes I had to take were racism and learning, and that's because they were the only classes that interested me that fulfilled their respective requirements. 

So, yeah. I'm a senior and this is my life right now...lol

Until next time,

Amber Marie <3