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#87 - reach a 4.0 in at least one semester of graduate coursework

As you can see from my lack of blogging lately, having a full-time job and going to graduate school has definitely been taking its toll!  I don't want anyone thinking I actually do homework everyday--I have a reputation to keep, after all--but when I'm not doing my homework, blogging makes me feel guilty about not doing my homework, and that just won't do when I'm trying to watch Modern Family at the same time. 

I could make a bunch of empty promises about how I'll post more now that classes are over (and very few times in my life have I ever been more relieved to see them end), but I already made a few empty promises about working out this summer, so I think I'm maxed out on those.

All my homework procrastination and lack of blogging aside, look what I did!


Granted, it's only two (not very challenging) classes, but it still totally counts for my 4.0 goal.  I have yet to take a literature-based course in my program (weird, right?), so my two read-this-novel-by-next-week-or-fail classes in the fall should be more intense.  Maybe.  Hopefully.  I miss digging into primary-source literature.

I have a few more updates (and by "a few," I mean "it's going to take me for-freaking-ever to get through them all"), but looking at the days left in my 999 period, I'm almost done with 1/3 of that time!  It's certainly going by much more quickly than I anticipated.  Yikes. 

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