Slackers

We are blog slackers. Cassie & I are back in the swing of things, and as we've adjusted back to the craziness we have resolved to slow down this pace of life ASAP.

So by ASAP I mean that we will be able to slow down in December when I am finished with graduate school and we finally have some evenings to spend together. I wish that the possible slow down date was closer to us, but it seems that life will continue to increase in speed until December at which point I will get to walk across the stage with a diploma in hand and call myself a "Master" at something. I am very grateful for the opportunity to study Applied Linguistics at one of the premier programs in the nation under some of the leaders in the field. (If you want more info about that, feel free to ask me later and I can tell you)

I feel that I understand so much more about language and I am actually kind of excited to embark on the adventure of learning another language in a few years. I must say that way I was taught language growing up was not terribly beneficial and that probably explains why I can only speak broken Spanish at best. I now feel like I have a framework for understanding how different languages work and that will hopefully help me as I am trying to learn French in the near future.

Back to our pace of life, I want to fight against the tendency to think that the grass will be greener on the other side of my Master's work, but part of me really thinks that it might be...at least for a few months. Going to work at 8 am and not getting home until 9 pm on the nights that I have class is a great way to burn out quickly, especially when there is still homework to be done after I get home. I am not intending to complain because I know that many others have it much harder than I do, but I am clearly stating that I am excited for the next season of my life which (I think) will be a little less hectic.

Ok, so I totally hijacked Cassie's blog post here, but I haven't written on the blog in......a long time. I don't even know when the last time I posted was. It can be kind of therapeutic to write for pleasure. I have forgotten that this is actually good for my soul.

Well, I need to get back to the homework for tonight but hopefully there will be more of this to come in the future.