Friday, April 4, 2014

Exciting Days, Exhausting Days

The last few weeks have been exciting, fulfilling, frustrating and exhausting. School keeps me on my toes and stretches my mind as I read, write, and pontificate, and I'm three weeks away from finishing my first year as a graduate student at American University. Meanwhile, work has been ramping up in two different veins: a big contract activity I'm involved with as well as preparing for a satellite launch. Both culminated this week and went well, I'm happy to report! In other news, I passed the first round of State Department FSO testing and stressed for three weeks about writing essays for the second round. Hopefully in a week or two there'll be news about whether I've made it to round three. In a few weekends Passover will take me to North Carolina to celebrate with the family and a few weeks after that my cousin's wedding will take me to Florida. Living with two roommates has settled into a good experience but brings stress in that they'll be moving out at the end of the lease (July 31) so it's time to start looking for a new place to live, probably on my own again.

All this has me constantly trying to catch my breath, but it's a fun, wild ride!