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I finished chapt 17 yesterday - some of the phrasing is a little rough, but the action is good and Mike even liked it. (first I wrote "frazing", then "phrazing" ...coooffffeee)

I met the new home health client yesterday, too. I was looking for about 20 hrs a week, and got 35. I'll hold on to the extra hours for a month or two until we get caught up on some of our bills. What it means, though, is that I work 'til 10 pm five nights a week, and go to class until 9:30 the other two nights a week. Every week day, I'll be either in class or at work from noon to 10 pm. On weekends, I'll work from 9 am to 10 pm. This is too much, and I know it's too much, but it will only be for about 8 weeks.

This Thursday, I'll go right from class to the road, heading off to Wiscon. Mike is still home and will stay with the kids until I get back. I have to be back at work at 3pm on Monday, and I can't decide if I should leave early Monday morning or Sunday evening.

how not to meet new people

I don't think that "meeting" people from polymatchmaker is gonna work for me. I struck up a conversation with a fellow down in Madison, and though he seems like a nice enough guy, he's impatient with the whole getting to know each other thing and pretty much just wants to move on to the sex part.

Now, I like the sex part. But I think I like the knowing someone a lot more. There are two men that I write to, lovely long letters filled with evocative description, inner thought and emotion, and I think that these letters fill my needs for additional contact much better than a casual sex partner. For some reason this is working out as an "either-or" kinda thing right now, which is too bad, but that's the way it is.

Now I need to write a letter to the guy down in Madison, because I think that I'm not going to meet him for dinner while I'm down there after all. I dunno, perhaps I'm judging him too quickly - I'll just tell him what I'm thinking and see what he says.

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I went into Academic Advising today and found out that the meeting where they decide on my appeal isn't until sometime around June 6. In the mean time, I can go to class and then add the class later, if I win my appeal and if the instructors agree.

If I don't win my appeal, I can take classes at Bay de Noc, I think.

Other news -- the grades that I received back in 1979 are part of my permanent record and cannot be expunged. That means that if I want to improve my grade point average, I'd have to take those classes over. It is possible that I already took those classes over and the registrars office didn't catch it when I transferred my grades from U of M. (since the records from 1979 are in some nether-land of microfiche, not on the system computer) If I took and of those classes at U of M, then the bad grades from those classes will vanish.

The specific importance of grade point is that I will need a 3.10-3.15 or so to get into nursing school at NMU. If I win my appeal and am able to finish the summer out, I expect to have a 2006-2007 cumulative gpa of around 3.15. Adding the 1979 grades in will bring it down to a 2.7 or so, which will make me unlikely to get into nursing school at NMU.

I think I'll win my appeal, but I probably won't get in to NMU's nursing program in the fall. If I want to, I could retake the 1979 classes this fall, and apply in February. Or I can go to Bay de Noc, if I get accepted there - I should know that in a week or two, I think.