February Updates

I realize I haven't updated since my last, whining post. Tuesdays and Thursdays were grueling for most of January because I have both of my clients on those days. But things have settled down since then, and I'm finding my groove. I adapted my child client's goals from last semester to be more functional, and I'm learning the difference between child and adult therapy. I feel like I'm growing immensely, and, here's the best news: I still love the career I've chosen to pursue.

Some things I'm looking forward to (and hopefully remember to blog about) in the upcoming months:

• Visiting Steve over Spring Break in Mississippi. I'm hoping it will be warm enough for us to rent bikes and ride The Longleaf Trace, a 40-something-mile-long trail that begins right next to his campus. 
• The Michigan Speech-Language-Hearing Association Annual Conference. I'm already registered and signed up for the seminars I want to attend. This is the last year I can take advantage of the super-low student registration rate. It's also a 20-minute drive from my apartment. 
• The end of Clinic Practicum. It will be bittersweet, as I won't get to see the people in my cohort anymore, but I'm excited to start my off-campus internship!
• Moving in May. Okay, I'm not actually excited for the moving part, but I'm looking forward to moving in with one of my SLP classmates and her adorable dog in a house about 15 minutes east of campus. 
• The 4th Annual Girls' Weekend. Every summer, a group of my lady friends and I go camping and tubing/kayaking down the Rifle River in Sterling, Michigan. What happens at Girls' Weekend stays at Girls' Weekend. Unless it's uploaded onto Facebook.

I'm not doing as well as I'd hoped in the realm of diet and exercise. I get so bogged down with schoolwork that I just don't take the time to plan meals or exercise. It's so much easier and tastier to order pizza. But I'm still trying, one meal at a time.