busy.

Busy, busy, busy, is what I’ve been all week but I also feel like I’ve accomplished a lot. I have not fallen too far behind in chemistry, I am all caught up in my film class, I went to Advanced Art this week (I missed it last week) and I’ve gotten a good handle on my senior show.

I went to Potter’s yesterday with Lori and finished painting the two pieces that Mom had commissioned. One was a mug that said “Randi” because Mom’s co-worker Randi is always taking her mug and using it so Mom thought it would be nice to get one for her. I made it blue and white striped with yellow stars and letters. The other commission was a plate for Sherri because Sherri put in her two weeks notice at the daycare and she’s one of Mom’s best friends. There are no hard feelings about her leaving because she got offered a full-time position at the vet’s office which includes benefits, something she doesn’t get working at Nana’s daycare. So Mom asked me to make her a plate that says, “Laughter adds years to your life, enjoy each and every day.” I made it all in purple with green and yellow accents because purple is her favorite color.

I’m probably going to have to quit Potter’s when I graduate. I talked to Michelle (my boss) yesterday and she said she wasn’t going to have a lot of hours for over the summer and its not really practical for me to work there when I’m also working and going to school in Iowa City. It will free up my weekends which is good and bad. With the job at Pearson as a professional scorer, I can work days or evenings. Days pays more so I’m going to try and get the scoring jobs during the day. Hopefully I’ll be able to do evenings when I’m in school over the next school year so I can still have a steady income even while learning. I’m thinking I’ll tell Michelle that I can be available when no one else can work on a weekend but to not schedule me regularly. So it will be like a substitute sort of thing. That way I’ll still be on staff there and helping out but I won’t be cutting into the other girls’ hours.

I’m still worried about life after graduation. Its like my life has been one specific journey so far. I knew that I would go to school, then college. I knew that was the plan but the plan for after college? That’s all up to me and really, I’m not sure if I still want to be a doctor. Maybe I do want to do something in health services but what if its being a nurse? What if its being an administrator? What if its doing research? I don’t really have a clue what my options are. I could be going down this path of becoming a doctor just because I don’t really know what any of my other options are.