I did it!
huge sigh of relief...

I have just handed in my final paper of the semester, via e-mail, to my professor. I met the deadline by 20 minutes!

Funny how life goes. I had planned to hand my final paper in last night so that I could hop the plane to Vancouver early this morning, but mid-evening last night I accidentally deleted about half of the paper while writing it on Microsoft WORD! I had saved my work along the way, but I think I did something like save the version that had the last pages deleted, and I just couldn't rescue what I'd lost.

I laughed and cried all at once, and I had to postpone my flight to Vancouver, because I knew there were hours of work yet to do and I wouldn't make the early a.m. flight.

So I am going to Vancouver a day and a half late, Wednesday night, and I worked all day on this paper. It is very good, and I'm feeling...numb! I'm sure I'll get the rush of accomplishment eventually. It's a Personal Philosophy of Counseling paper, detailing my two favorite modes of therapy: person-centered Rogerian therapy and narrative therapy, and integrating my faith perspective.

I'll post from Vancouver and let you see my beautiful surroundings there. Can't wait to be surrounded by my family there, and did you know I'm going to a narrative therapy conference at UBC while up there? Yes, I am! My very first professional conference, with presenters from New Zealand, Africa, Canada, U.S., fascinating! cannot believe I get to be part of this, and me only a student. Way Cool!

Bye for now,
Tired Grad. Student Brina