Almost Done

I'm slugging down some black coffee this afternoon and working on a final project for school. It's a group presentation and will involve some public speaking. I don't mind too much, but I still have to get my slides and my index cards organized. We will be doing a run through next week to make sure we hit the time target.

The sun is out today and there is this perfect late summer breeze coming through the office window. I didn't sleep much last night because I have been nervous about the final, but I feel OK today. If I can get a few hours of homework in tonight, I should be able caught up before my work weekend begins. I also hope to go hiking with a friend on Monday. We will probably do something local and fairly easy. It will be so wonderful to get out in the woods again. I don't even care if it rains.

There have been so many things I have felt like writing down over these past weeks, but school has been my main priority. I did document a few dreams in my "Dream Journal". Some of the images might work in a future story, or I might just look at them to understand myself better. There seem to be a lot of recurring themes and settings that I've kept in my subconscious through the years. I'm sure they are impressions of things I've run across on my life journey...interiors and exteriors of various buildings. Most are beautiful or peculiar or unbelievably grand or elaborate or enormous. Some are very strangely shaped, as though they were built in another country or culture or perhaps shaped by the hands of the dream world. Some are abandoned or crumbling and others are not. There are also many streets and neighborhoods I seem to know...and yet I don't recall if I do. I would imagine a lot of these image were picked up during travels.

I talked a friend from school yesterday and she said she'd like to try going to a dance class with me sometime. I think I might attempt to go once a week in the fall. I've had such a long break from dance, due to graduate school. I tried the weekend warrior drop-in thing for awhile, but all the reading, writing, and deadlines got in the way. I decided it's worth a try to go again in the fall. If not, I'll suffice with maintaining a basic level of fitness and stress management at the gym. I actually like yoga and have noticed it makes me more flexible than ballet did.

One awesome thing is we get to spend a lot of times with the dogs next week. Hubby will be helping because I picked up some extra work. The puppies are so great and I will miss them when fall quarter starts. I'm hoping I can do some more dog walking in the future. It is one of the best jobs ever, but school is kind of throwing a wrench in that too. I would advise that no one go to grad school unless they want to not have much of a life for a few years.