Life right now

Hello all, its been a while since I last wrote but thats because I have been really occupied with grad school! It is now week 7 and WHAT a whirlwind it has been this far! I seriously was not ready for what grad had in store for me! The very first day we had class and then we all went to an off campus home/barn called Selu Observatory where we got to introduce ourself and why we wanted to be a SLP. Then we had lunch and sat and listened to an overwhelmingly amount of information about the next two years of our life! It was very intimidating and information overload, I think we all left wondering what exactly we got ourselves into. Then Tuesday, we had an information session about clinic and we got our clients that we would begin therapy with the NEXT week. We were all VERY intimidated to start working with clients because we had no idea how to do anything related to therapy! We were so nervous to even call our client to tell them the exact date when therapy would start lol.

I currently have two clients, an adult and child, and then I do hearing screenings for the education students. Clinic has already been such a learning experience. I often wish that Radford would not give us clients until the second semester, or would just give us just one our first semester, but I see why they give us clients right off the bat. I guess there is no better way to learn than to make mistakes and gain knowledge from them. Clinic is so much work. We are with clients 6 hours a week, have a meeting with our supervisor for an hour once a week, then it takes an hour before each session to prepare for it, then we have to do the paper work-writing soap notes and lesson plans. For each soap note (basically a page long summary of how the client performed during the session), we turn them into our supervisor and then they revise them and return them for us to redo. I have revised the first soap note of the semester 4 times now! Anyways, it is hard to balance clinic on top of all the work for classes.

It has been such a challenge to get back into "student mode" again. My year off definitely spoiled me! They said time management was very important, and now I know how important it really is! There is ALWAYS something to be done. I am on campus all day long everyday of the week except Friday. I have had to get used to that too. Radford definitely doesn't compare to JMU, but I am trying to accept the campus as it is and be thankful that I even have this opportunity. I didn't get a GA position, and I am little upset about that. Even though I don't know when I would fit in time for the job, I am still hoping to get one! The extra money would be wonderful! I just wonder why all my friends have got one and I haven't. I thought I had one the other day when a lady emailed me asking to come in for interview. After immediately responding saying I could come in for an interview on the day she said, she emailed be back saying that the position been closed. WHOMP WHOMP....I really got my hopes up just to get them let down. Hopefully I will get one sooner rather than later.

Ok, enough about grad school, lets talk about married life. I love love love being married! Sterling and I have been married now for 3 months, and it has been great! I love having someone to go to bed with and wake up next to. I love having Sterling to talk about my day, to hang out with, to cook with, to snuggle with, to talk about school with, to do everything with! Life is seriously better with him by my side, he is my better half! Sterling has been working a lot of nights lately, and it reallllllly sucks!!! I hate hate hate spending my nights alone. It does give me a chance to do my homework without distractions, but I miss him so much. When he works nights, we're on total opposite schedules, the only time we get to see each other is for like an hour when he gets home at 12:30 at night. I didn't think I'd be bothered that much by being alone, but it sucks, I'm ready to get him back to day shift. Since we live in Christiansburg there is no one for me to hang out with. I could hang out at Jenn, Jess, and Brooke's apartment, but a lot of times I just want to come home and relax and not go all the way back to Radford twice in one day. But anyways I know it will get better soon, and until then I need to suck it up and "put my big girl panties on" lol!

Alrighty, I'm going to get back to homework now!

Thanks for reading! :)

Kate