One year ago today…

…Life became a blur overall for the next three months and then some.  Toni went into the hospital for her total left knee replacement.  She writes about it in her blog here.  I think it’s cute she said I was prepping for quals.  I was supposed to be prepping for them, but, uh… yeah.  At least I did pass them.  And I’m not critical of Toni’s timing for getting her knee replacement when she did – I certainly don’t think I’d have been able to put up with the pain she was in for as long as she was in it.  I’m also very glad she’s doing better as time passes as well.

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Time

On the way back from the dentist this morning (it’s almost a 90-minute drive, so plenty of thinky time) I was thinking about turning 46 next Wednesday while still being in school.  I wondered if I had been in school for half of all that.  So I did a little arithmetic:

• 12 years primary & secondary school at Warren Township Schools in Indianapolis, first through twelfth grades, 1972 – 1984.
• 5 years at Purdue in West Lafayette and IUPUI in Indy resulting in a B.A. in Liberal Arts (Communication) from IU, 1984 – 1989.
• 1 year at Ball State in Muncie for an M.S. in Information and Communication Science, 1990 – 1991.
• 0.5 years at IUPUI as make-up/prep for returning to Purdue in 2006.
• 3 years at Purdue for an M.S. in Atmospheric Science, 2006 – 2009.
• 2.5 years and counting at Purdue for a Ph.D. in progress, 2009 – ? (targeting a finish date of December 2012).

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24 years of school.  Yep.  Just over half my life.  Is it any wonder I’m getting antsy to be finished?

Originally published at Abnormality Locality. You can comment here or there.