Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Been there, done that, got the t-shirt

First off I want to issue a gigantic CONGRATULATIONS to my lovely wife who has completed her master's degree with her sanity (mostly) intact. In the past 5 years she gave birth (again), got three hyperactive little boys pointed in what seems like a good direction in life, worked full time, had fairly major knee surgery, kicked some pretty serious butt on the soccer field, completed a master's degree, and, amazingly, put up with me. I may even give her a break and not heckle her about watching reality TV for a while ;)

Now some of you (all 3 of you) may have noticed that I was strangely quiet about having completed grad school myself. I wouldn't say I'm superstitious per-se, but I definitely do try to follow a bit of the "don't count your chickens before they're hatched" mindset. One of my two professors literally waited until the very last second to turn in our grades to the registrar so I was left hanging for an extra 6 days to find out how I did in my final class. To be honest I was a tiny bit concerned because I hadn't done stellar on the midterm and the final just simply sucked... like 2.5 hours of pure suck. Turns out taking the day off from work to study must have paid off because it seems I did genuinely ok. So now, finally, as of 5 a.m. today I can breathe the big sigh of relief and say "I'M DONE!" Why don't we throw in a "WOO-HOO!" and a "YAH-BABY!" just for good measure. Calendar time, I was at this for 9.5 years. That included a 4 year hiatus and a couple of skipped semesters when we were elbows deep in newborn diapers. It's an incredible relief to be finished... and now I can wear the t-shirt :)

7 comments:

solobreak said...

Congratulations. And there goes all your excuses. Your wife should easily be able to support the family while you train full time right? Don't forget to ask for an altitude tent as your graduation present. She might have to pay a few bucks extra for the tall person's version.

trackrich said...

I've been telling her for years she needed to claw her way up the ladder so she can be my sugar momma. I believe her most recent response was something to the effect of "keep dreaming" :)

Scott Sweeney said...

Congratulations bud!! Welcome to the world of "I'll have so much extra time to train now that I'm not in school" club. Punchline: that time will be occupied with other crap. It's amazing, but it just seems to happen!

trackrich said...

Already yesterday as we were running around doing 100 different things we just looked at each other and said "How's that free time treatin ya?" I keep trying to remember I don't need to catch up on everything all at once...

JSmith5780 said...

Benn a BAD reader, so you're back up to 4 now.

Congrats to you both!

Totally OT. My sis has had two bikes stolen from her dorm. Any advice on a better type of chain? I suggested a bike with a removable tire since no one wants a "broken" bike. But she's a poor college kids, not sure what she can afford. Any advice? Also, are removable tires easy enough to put back on or is my sis gonna have a hard time with that?

JSmith5780 said...

P.S. You need an RSS feed on here. I stink at remembering to check blogs :)

JSmith5780 said...

you can email me momofabc @ nycap.rr.com