For once I'm early!!

Here is the dealio.  I am always late.  Late for work, late for meeting people, late in getting up, staying up late.  Just kind of me thing.  But yesterday I was told I was early!  Okay here is the story.

So I am sitting at 18 credits done in the Master's program at SDSU.  Now you need 30 to graduate.  My thesis will be 7 credits.  Two courses left and one is a required course - theories.  I'm not worried.

But here is the kicker.  I am ahead with my thesis - 50 pages done.  My advisor told me that I am proposing this fall (ahhh!) and researching over Christmas (bummer) and writing it in the spring.  That means I could potentially defend in the spring.  Wonderful!  Take 7 credits of thesis and two courses.  However theories is not offered until the fall.  Stink.  Maybe I can do it differently like an independent study of that or substitute another theories course in. But whatever the case I am rocking it!

Excited - yes.  Sad - yes.

I had originally planned on being here 2 full years.  That means I will just accelerate into the 'real world'.  I am digging this college thing again.  Maybe I need to get my PhD right away.  I talked to Brunner yesterday and he said that I should try applying to schools right away.  ASU (Arizona), Ohio, Oklahoma, Colorado, U of M are my top picks.  I really would love to go someplace just out there.  So I am not that passionate about U of M or Oklahoma.  In reality also it is if they can give me an assistantship because that would be ridiculous to pay it from the pocket entirely.

Also I am happy with my life right now.  It seems everything is fitting like a puzzle.  Decisions decisions, yet oh man the excitement!  

On the flip side I could just get a job.  I have been itching to go out there for a Fortune 500 and do the thing I do.  Oh my runs will be fruitful this semester.  Speaking of that I'm off to do a 8 miler.  Love these nights where I just escape into the country and listening to the bugs get nervous about coons and skunks.  Lovely.