...prove to dad i'm not a fool

well, it's back to school time! i had my first day at my internship today. this year i'm at Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families with Paul Kelley. i think it will be really good. macro level big changes kind of stuff. today i entered data that was gathered from a focus group to help rid the state of payday loans. good stuff. class starts tomorrow. i've got evaluation and research from 10-12, management and community practice I from 1-4, and statistics from 5-8. that's right...i'll be in the same building for 8 hours all in one day. i'm glad to be back into the swing of things, i feel like i'm in my element when i'm in school; probably explains why i'm going for another masters after this (that, or i'm afraid of living in the "real world"...nah). now that's not to say that i didn't thoroughly enjoy my 2 weeks of vacation i just had. traveling for a week and then hanging out in little rock. tried on my wedding dress that came in way earlier than expected. that was fun. got to hang out a good bit with rachel and her boyfriend dev; it was really good to see them. had a fun play date with leah; she saw the dress and tried on some bridesmaid dresses, we went bead shopping and she taught me to make necklaces and earrings and such, then out for semi-fancy italian food. friday i had what turns out to be my last day at hardin's river mercantile. yep, i've been "laid off". don't think i got fired or anything...it's just a little too expensive for them to have employees these days. so now i'm going to be scraping for the extra cash that my fridays were to provide me (sadly i'm poor enough for $64 a week to make a pretty big difference). elizabeth's going to put me on the substitute teaching list at christ lutheran, and i think i'll try to do the same at holy souls and mount saint mary (both where i went to school). so if anyone else knows of some odd jobs i could do on friday mornings and afternoons, i'd be ever so obliged if you'd send them my way (that is, if anyone checks this frequently enough).
well, that's enough of that for now. i'm off to do other things. like play on the internet some more and read. i didn't exercise today, which is a bad way to start out my week of exercise. but i am wearing my retainer for the second night in a row. oh, and watch out...you just my see a contact-eyed brooke in the sort of near future...