Can I just say I cannot wait to graduate. I simply cannot wait. It's not like I'm getting my PhD or anything like that, although this would have been the year I would have gotten it had I stuck through the Friday night/ Saturday classes over the last 4 years. Nope, chickened out and instead decided to get another MA in an entirely different field.

But it's great. And the greatest thing about getting this MA is that I don't know what the hell I'm going to do with it. Well, I do know... there are some skills I learned that I'm going to put to use at work, but I think one of the best things about this degree is that I absolutely am not going to make any life changing decisions from it and it's nice to really say that I did it, because I really did want to learn and it was the process that really did count. You know, the way education should be. For the very same reason that Socrates believed about education.

My plans after graduation? Read the books I haven't had time to read, sail to Baja, go hiking, get drunk on Friday nights, buy music (I already started... bough 6 cds last month. Basically retire from the academic world. At least for a while.