I Need A Better Sleeping Schedule . . .

How sad is it that I woke up about forty minutes ago and it’s ten after four in the afternoon?

::Sighs::  My sleeping schedule is all out of whack because of the hours I work.  Oh, well.  I’m telling John at some point today that I can only work four days starting next week.  I’m gonna tell him that I have to keep that availability for October and November so I can finish the novel.  Then, once I’ve heard something from Poisoned Pen, I’ll go to Brookdale and find out how much the two courses I want to take will cost.  (I’ll also decide which two courses I want to take . . .)  Then, I’ll see if I can schedule them for days when I also work.  Do an early afternoon to 3:20 class or something like that.  Then, I’m not getting up at an insane hour in the morning, but I will have the full day ahead of me and I can still work till closing.

Basically, I’m gonna see if I can work on the same days as I have class.  That way, on my days off, I can devote them to homework and whatever else and it’ll still feel like I have three days off during the week.

I need to explore my options, too, as I get this degree.  I know an associate’s isn’t enough to start my own pratice, but would be be enough, say, to become a school counselor?  Or to work as a psychologist for someone else’s practice?  It’s something to look into.

Well, first things first.  I need to adjust my working schedule and finish this novel.  Then I’ll focus on furthering my education.  And the best part is, I’m gonna see if I can fund myself through this.  (Maybe I’ll ask to get reimbursed, or have it taken off what I owe for the car if I succeed at a certain average, though.  )

I wish I’d been able to get a much earlier start on this whole psychology degree thing.  If only I’d decided this when I was 18, 19, 20, instead of 23.  Oh, well.  Writing is my main love and I still intend to make a living off of that.  But psychology will help me and at least I’ll still be learning and challenging myself.  That’s always good.

Sometimes I wish that to get a psych degree, you didn’t have to go through all that schooling.  I mean, there should just be a huge test that you have to take about history of psych, what kind of disorders do what and effect what, and stuff like that.  Then, depending on the degree of difficulty the test was, that determines your degree.  ie — Associate’s, Bachelor’s, Master’s . . . I can dream, can’t I?

One thing that I do think should be taken into effect, though, is that everyone who is going into the field of psychology should be put through mandatory tests to determine whether they’re mentally sound or not.  Because there are crazy psychologists/psychiatrists out there.

Okay, I gotta go.  Work time now.

At least tonight I’m not closing.  Well, technically I didn’t last night, either.  I got to go at about twenty after ten, cuz nobody’d called in about forty minutes.  And I still made about fifty bucks in tips, which was nice.

Okay, leaving now.  Bye.