Back to school!

I haven't posted in forever, so I'm probably talking to myself at this point.  But I figure in a few years, I'll enjoy reading these entries.

Kleo is still just one big bundle of energy.  She does everything full-throttle.  Playing with toys, playing with Jaiden, going for walks, chasing bugs, etc.  It's usually cute and occasionally annoying.  She's somewhat high-maintenance in that she gets bored easily.  She's fully kennel trained now, and she'll go in there and sleep (although when I'm in the shower, she'll go sleep in Jaiden's kennel--I don't know why... maybe it's more comfortable?).  I'm looking forward to when she's a little bit older and slows down a bit.

This summer, I've been BUSY.  In addition to my regular job, I decided to take a class during the first six weeks of summer just to get it out of the way, and I've had an internship at Clemson (today's my last day, WOOT!).  My internship has been... wait for it...

Programming.  I knew the internship required some programming experience, but it was advertised as needing students in the environmental engineering or geology majors, so I didn't think it would be focused so heavily on programming.  That was fairly disappointing, especially considering I'm changing careers to get OUT of computers and  programming.  But, if nothing else, I suppose it'll look decent enough on my resume.

Yesterday, I gave a pretty decent presentation (to my professor and the others he's advising... about 8 people in total) on my internship.  Normally, I dread presentations.  When I was younger, I memorized my presentations, and if I couldn't remember something, I'd freak and stumble along.  So, I began to just wing it on most of my presentations, and just try to remember the main points.  That didn't work well either, so I just plain hated giving presentations.  I've gone back to memorizing again, but if I can't remember something, I'll take a few seconds to relax, try to remember, and if I can't, then I'll just move on.  It's worked well, and my nerves aren't nearly as frayed when I have to present.

I'm considering grad school, which is something I never thought I'd be interested in.  Clemson offers a 5-year BS/MS, so I'd just have to take an additional year of classes and I'd have a (non-thesis) MS.  I have to keep my GPA at or above 3.4 and right now it's at 3.53.  So I really need to kick ass the next couple of years.

I start school (technically my junior year, even though my status is "senior") on Wednesday.  I'll be taking economics, water/wastewater treatment, fluid mechanics and environmental history.  I'd be lying if I said I wasn't looking forward to this semester, but I know that in a few short weeks, I'll be looking forward to the end of the semester.