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The quick run of all things is that I’ve been very busy.

I just returned from a weekend in Chicago which I hope to do a wonderful couple of posts on in the near future. I’m waiting for the pictures to develop and for a few moments of free time to really do a good solid story about it.

When I got home, I had an interview with a local hospital to help start up a new sleep lab they are opening in a nearby town. I’m being obscure for now as there has been a bit of a stirring up over companies finding out about personal employees blogs and getting pissed when they find their company secrets all over them.

I’d say sleep medicine isn’t that sensitive, but, damned if you wouldn’t know it, my former sleep employer, somniTech, Inc. sued me when I left them for another company. So far, I’ve won that case, but it is still technically open, they just haven’t done anything about it for almost a year now.

I think I got that job, but I missed the first day of cognitive psychology to make it. Summer classes work such that one day is nearly equivalent to a week of normal classes. So, my second day was a bit of a wake-up call to the indepthness of cognitive psychology. More on that later as well.

I also found out my grandma was in the hospital. She’s okay, but the condition is such that it’s added to some worry for the week. I’d describe more, but being a health care worker, I’m tuned in to personal privacy. I don’t really understand why someone suddenly being geriatric makes their health so open to conversation in normal circles. Between family members, sure, but I really see a lot of people talk about their parents health in a way that would just piss them off if their kids did it to them. Your privacy disappears at no age, just your ability to fight for it, apparently.

I’ve got so many plans to complete, I’m not sure where to start really. I’ve got a pile of work left to do at the newsroom, for which I’m paid, so that ups the priority. I’ve got an in depth story about research and money at KU to finish up, though that took a good turn before the trip. I finally got the list of salaries of all researchers paid at the University. It adds up to about 43.3 million as was previously not well known about. It’s sort of my pride for this class that ended in Spring. I still have an incomplete in that class, which I have to complete to graduate. Yay stress!

I also have some plans to update the family sites look so that it’s more pleasing to stop by. I’m not sure how that will go. It comes about the time I have a canoe trip to finish planning and some other projects to start as well.

It’s these things and so many more that make the end of my college time such a desirous thing. Finishing school marks a great deal of things for many people. Now that it’s the new high school degree, I feel I can finally start my damn life the way I want to do it. There is a reality that I wanted this college experience as well, but I’m done with it for now. There are volumes of books I’d like to read because I want to, subjects to study because I’m interested in them, not because of a prerequisite to something else, and places to go that I couldn’t consider because of semesters, classes and finals.

Accomplishments, you know. They’re nice. Without them, I suppose we degenerate to some lower being simply fulfilling basic needs and seeking our friends’ high fives.