I Know, I Know

I've been slacking, BUT in my defense, things have been more hectic than usual. The boys and I all started back to school, NSU on the 15th, KPS on the 18th and Jaxie's pre-school started on the 22nd. So we're trying to adjust schedules and get used to a new routine. Mondays are always up in the air, we're usually running errands or doing something though. Tuesdays after Jaxie gets out of school at noon, we head to his speech therapy. Wednesday is my F2F class, Thursdays are chemo days and Friday-Sunday are recovery days and/or homework days and/or plan-making days.

So I started school on the 15th, I was enrolled in my last 9 hours of my undergrad. At the last minute, they deleted my Capstone course because there was only 3 people enrolled. Lame, right? So I get an e-mail from the professor telling me to enroll in his Insurance Litigation course. I was so confused, but we got it straightened out and basically we're enrolled, but we're not actually taking the class, we're taking our Capstone course and they will replace it on our transcript at the end of the semester. However, I was also enrolled in what is known to be the capstone course for my minor. We were having to plan a full-on convention type meeting, like a real one, not a hypothetical meeting, a real one, complete with correspondence letters and everything. Now, I don't have time for that. Not to mention, he tells us that unless we started planning the meeting over the summer or last spring, we would have to take an incomplete and finish it in the spring. Rude. So I talked to my adviser, as well as financial aid and decided it would be best to not be too stressed this semester, drop the class and take a different one in the spring (there were no more classes available this semester for my minor). So yes, this means I will be extending my college life another semester. I ALMOST felt like I had failed, but I'm still going to be graduating and accomplishing goals, so I don't feel like I have failed. I am definitely accepting defeat for this semester. Well, kinda anyway. Now that I only have 6 hours, I will be able to focus on those classes and do some kick-ass work.

However, we will still be continuing with "Plan A." It's been altered a little to fit the circumstances, but it is still Plan A. So what exactly is this plan, you ask? I will tell you. I will be taking 6 hours of online classes in the spring. Yes, I know I only need 3 credit hours and that is only 1 class. You don't need to tell me that, I know. But if I only take a 3-hour course, I will not be eligible for loans (you have to be enrolled in 6 hours or more to be eligible). At this point, I don't really need the loans, but they make it to where I have extra money in my pocket and that extra money is being used for part of the plan. So I will probably take a class I've already taken, but made a bad grade (C or worse) in and work harder to make a better grade so the bad grade will be taken off my transcript and my GPA will be higher. Then I will also be taking an HTM (my minor) course to finish up my degree plan. Both classes will be taken online. Therefore, I will be able to go ahead with the original Plan A of moving to Nashville in January (hence the loans so I can have money to move). I will be able to come back in May for graduation, because let's be honest, if I didn't walk in graduation, my family would murder me.

And what are you going to do when you get to Nashville? The million-dollar question. So the job-market is tough, especially if you're straight out of college with little-to-no experience in your field. So I'm not sugar-coating it, I know I'm not going to land an amazing job at a top law firm in Nashville, then just move out there and be happy for the rest of my life. Not gonna happen. I am honestly not even going to look for jobs in the legal field until I actually get there. Well, I kinda am, but most of them want like 3-5 years experience and stuff like that. We all know Nashville is a tourist town and someone with a degree in Hospitality and Tourism Management (which is my minor) wouldn't have a problem finding a job there. Gaylord Entertainment owns half the town and they always have a million job openings, a lot of which only require a high school diploma and 1 year experience in customer service. Not only do I have both, I know quite a bit more about the tourism industry than someone off the street, putting me ahead of the game. So I plan on getting a job with them, moving out there, then looking for a job in the legal field. Fingers crossed this plan works out, if not I have Plans B, C, and D already mapped out (would you expect anything less of me?), but that's not something we'll talk about until we have to use one of those plans. Eventually I will prep for my LSAT and get a high enough score to get into law school at Vanderbilt :) Que será, será, right?

Now that I've made this blog ten times longer than I had originally planned, I'm outta here.