Playing catch-up ...

Hello everyone! The last three and a half weeks have been ... i'll use the word "challenging." The day we received the news that my fiance's mother had passed away was probably one of the worst days of my life. Losing a loved one is extremely difficult in itself. Losing a parent is by far the hardest thing I can imagine going through. It's been a rough past few weeks for us here, but we're dealing ok and James is getting better day by day. I never imagined something so tragic would happen so soon. Now, I'm trying to play catch-up on school work, which right now seems like a bigger burden than I'm ready to take on. Do I begin where we're at currently? Do I make-up the work from previous weeks so that I'm up to date with everyone else? This is what is constantly going through my mind. All the while we've got a Holiday vacation already paid for and planned from the day after this term ends (Dec.23) until Jan.5 so filing for an extention will do me no good. I have talked with my advisor, and I am going to re-take both of my classes from this term next term. The idea of failing is certainly not one that I'm taking lightly. I never thought I'd end up in a predicament like this, but unfortunately life happens, and you just have to deal with it the best way you possibly can. I'm a perfectionist when it comes to school and grades so you can all imagine that I'm having an extremely difficult time with this.

As for the final project and my topic I've still got a lot of research to do so I can't really comment a whole lot on the second part of the blog requirements for this week. Once I get caught up, I'll be sure to let you all know where I think my topic could be influential later in research. Till then.... happy writing :)