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(drumroll, please)
Semester GPA: 3.875.
One B. ONE. And it is in a rather difficult theory class (ear training).
16 hours attempted. And passed. With pretty darn good grades.
(piercing scream of excitement as she dances up and down)
I touched on this in a previous post, but I'll bring it up again. If ANYONE told me a year ago that I would be majoring in music, be working at a job in a bookstore that I love, be getting a freakin' 3.875 GPA, be surrounded by wonderful, encouraging diva and non-diva friends and, indeed, that I'd consider myself an artist and a diva, I'd have never believed them.
I tried so hard to do a technical science program (nursing), and was so miserable, and did so badly (how many Ds can one get before considering a change of major? I think I may hold the record!), and yet kept trying to do it because I thought that having a certain job that paid pretty darn well at graduation was the best I could hope for. It was as though (to quote a rather picturesque friend of mine) I was begging for a pizza, when God was trying to give me Rome.
I walked past the science building the other day, and realized that I never (NEVER!) again have to be up to my elbows in phenol-ed (good grief, that stuff is horrible! It has a sickly-sweet smell that CLINGS) dead cat. Nor do I have to be in a group of people being quizzed on the poor dear's organs. I was usually in the back of the group with my shirtsleeve over my nose and mouth to try to block the smell, and gagging virtually nonstop. My feelings of "oh that poor sweet kitty, and what the bloody hell do you MEAN I have to cut it open and remove its liver?!!" were...ah...not exactly appreciated by the instructors. :P
I feel like I have Rome. I'm living the dream I've always had but thought I could never do.
Oh, I have been so very blessed. I am so happy, and so grateful.
And, for the first time in my life, I like who I am and what I am doing with my life and myself. I am at peace.
I am so happy. So very, very happy!
(insert happy dance here)
And I had to post all of this to try to explain how happy I am and why.
