The good thing about my job is that even when I do the bare minimum, I'm still generally doing better than my predecessors. I prefer doing beyond the minimum, but right now has been a stressful time at work and so being able to focus on just what has to get done is a nice luxury to have. My focus has gone out the window entirely since I got registered for courses, and classes start on Monday.

This isn't like Evergreen (or high school, for that matter) where the syllabis get mailed to you a month in advance with homework to be done by the first day of class, and it's driving me crazy. I want to know what to expect from my classes. They start next week and will dictate my life for the next four months, and so I would like to know now what preparations I need to do to get ready for all of this, other than the obvious (clean house, get backpack, get books, get paper and pencils, find appropriate study spaces for various "moods" of studying, etc.).

To amuse myself while work is in a lull and while I'm trying hard NOT to obsess too much about how little I know about my impending classes, I've been looking over my course requirements for this degree, planning out my course load and my expenditures for the next few terms. I get to look forward to a new computer, among other exciting things. Ever since my Alienware comp decided it couldn't handle WoW (they finally fixed the burning-hot video card issue, but the CPU still overheats when WoW is attempted), I've been a little skittish about getting a new computer. I'm impressed by the level of service that I've seen at Apple, so I'm leaning towards getting myself a Mac this time. Even the bad service that I've heard of has been better than the "good" service at Alienware, so I'm optimistic.

I'm also looking forward to this term being done with. I know, it hasn't even begun, but this term is my "prerequisite" term. I have three classes to fulfill before I can take FI 420 Personal Financial Planning (the intro course). Two of them are this term, and one of them I get to take next term adjacent to my "real" FP course. This term is all economics and finance, neither of which get me all a-fluster with fantasies of people finally having IRA's and good FICO scores. Instead it just leaves me with worry that I'll lose momentum by the time I actually reach the start line. :P