a new chapter

It is now April. My how time has flown!

Somehow time warped between November and now - each day being terribly terribly long, but the months being far too short.

My intake of Nova Scotian culture ebbed to a low - the world consisted of school, school, work, kids. I sometimes raised my head from the computer to notice what a mess the house was but that too was just an annoying distraction.

I became superstitious about blog writing - somehow time spent on this would give me bad academic karma.

I noticed a distinct correlation between the feeling one gets when they run long distance marathons and doing assignments and exams. "I can't do this and I am going to fail" started to sound like a maudlin mantra - and no one believed me anyways.

But now here we are - it is over! I have (hopefully) successfully completed 5 courses and can now move on to the directed study course and thesis! Wow! last year at this time it was all just a pipe dream.

There were highlights - one of my favourite was showing up for one of my classes and my professor started to talk about a great study on performance of water efficient toilets - I could not help myself, I had to take credit for CMHC on this one.

I also got to give a lecture one day. Basically it is an hour long presentation - which I actually really really enjoyed. But that is because I am a blabbermouth.

I never did enjoy the integration and chemistry mass balancing in the water quality course and ultimately I realized that no amount of banging my head against the proverbial wall was going to make me a smarty pants in this area - the adage fits appropriately here "grant me the courage to change the things I can, the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, and the wisdom to know the difference".