impending graduation

A mere 40-ish days separate me from life outside of campus, classrooms, and college in general. It's been a tumultuous trek, but nonetheless interesting, intriguing, informing, and entertaining (I know it's not an "i" word, but it shares a similar sound). I have to simply pass my GBA490 - Strategic Management Capstone C&BA course with a grade of C+ or better and I can graduate with my Bachelor's of Science in Accountancy degree, my three remaining Spanish courses (conversation, Spanish-American civilization, and commercial) to received a Spanish minor, and one last honors course to receive a "graduated with honors" designation on my diploma.

This week poses a pretty hefty workload--a two-part, two-day test in Commercial Spanish, and more "typical" tests in Spanish-American Civilization and honors (a personal financial planning course that has been wonderfully practical and laid-back), a written case study in Strategic Management, a quiz in Spanish-American Civilization...and I think that's it for the academic requirements. November is going to be a busy month, with presentations, portfolios, final projects, lengthy written assignments, and other general classwork galore. But light is at the end of the tunnel--as it has always been (except at night)--and now I can see it.

To add to everything else in November, we are moving off campus during the week of Thanksgiving. Classes are dismissed on the Wednesday of that week, and our new lease begins Tuesday, so we'll begin carting loads over as soon as we can so we can get some semblance of order before the short five-day span is over and dead week, the week before finals is upon us.

We're baking cookies right now. Stephanie concocted a ginger-cinnamon-maple syrup cookie recipe to take to a girls' night tonight. And I have to head to work in a couple minutes.