Here we go...again

It is hard to believe that my life as a graduate student is almost over. Soon, I will enter "the real world" again, as a productive citizen - giving back to the community in which I work. I feel completely ready and prepared for this next step in my developing journey towards true vocation. This preparedness is mostly attributed to my time at Azusa Pacific University as a student and employee. How I arrived here is somewhat of a blur though. Week after week of reading, writing, researching, programming, mentoring, supervising, eating, sleeping...like a small snowball tumbling down the mountain, increasing its speed, increasing its size, until finally it reaches the base of the mountain, transformed into a mammoth boulder of snow. I am a mammoth boulder of knowledge and experience, ready to take the next step. Here we go again! I certainly haven't forgotten the lessons learned, yet my "shipwreck" accident seems like a faint dream, or nightmare, from the past...and I'm alright with that. I'm excited to simply let this memory fade away under the layers of compacted "snow". Let go...

25 days until Placement Exchange, 30 days until my first research presentation at a national conference, 84 days until graduation, 99 days until my wedding day...but who's REALLY counting anyhow? Who am I kidding...I'M COUNTING, that's for sure! There is a faint glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel, buried under more reading, writing, researching, programming, mentoring, supervising, eating, and sleeping. I can see it shimmering like a dime at the bottom of the wishing well...just a few more lengths of rope, and my bucket will reach the bottom. Another weekend, another to-do list, another impossible looking feat. You know what though? I have definitely done this before, I CAN DEFINITELY do it again...SO - Here we go...again!