Summer

Option One: MSU Internship

My chemistry professor sent his letter of recommendation in, got a reply already. Made me wonder if I should just email my application, but since I have all the information hard copy and no easy access to a scanner, it would be just one more thing to deal with trying to get it all scanned and put into an email.

I decided to just go ahead and sent it via snail mail. Sean was my delivery boy, came into the library with me on his day off to get the last little bit of info to be able to send it.

Option 2: Stay Home

Since there is a 99.999999% chance that I will not get the internship, it is good to have a back up plan. The students in my calculus class are trying to get the second part of the class, Calc 1B, offered this summer. I signed their petition because one of the professors who has signed up to teach it is the same prof I had for pre-calc last semester! He has such great energy and is so patient, I would love to take another class with him if possible. He is also a bit crazy, I am going to try to go his rock concert thing this Saturday night. The last show he did that we went to was Halloween, and while I'm not much for screamo bands, it's still fun to watch your math professor rock out on stage.

If I did stay home, there are some important things that I could accomplish. We would stay at the Lobo house with Sean's parents, in the trailer that was given to us at Christmas. I would be able to work on Shorty our trailer/home (due to the very strong possibility that I will not be accepted into the barn residency program at Davis and will probably be living in that trailer on a tomato farm), work on getting the information off my two old hard drives, and even go over to Don and Cathi's house and help them with their garage, a project we have been saying we would do for years but never got around to. There is also the room in Bonnie and Lew's garage that I need to finish sorting through, that has the stuff we stored after we moved out of the Lobo house and into our Palm Desert apartment. I guess I am just having trouble wrapping my mind around getting rid of stuff that is important to me, just because we do not have the room for it now. Half my mind keeps telling me that we will have room for it, someday, that I will want to see those old kindergarten projects and wedding things, but the other half of my mind says I need to grow up and get rid of it, that it is just stuff. *sigh*

Wouldn't mind waking up to this view every morning.

Option 3: Colorado

No word back from Sombrero Ranch as of yet, so I am not sure what is going on there. Maybe they are staffed already, maybe I just would not be a good fit. Maybe they just have not gotten around to application review yet. Whatever it is, I am not going to hold my breath. While the extra money would be nice, and the experience would be an absolute blast, it would be hard to be away from Sean that long.

It would be wonderful to spend the summer on a back of a horse, though. . .

Option 4: Cannon Beach

Every year I apply to Cannon Beach, and every year they say I could do it, but that my school schedule does not work well with their summer schedule (because College of the Desert's semester starts in August and their season goes through September). Well, Davis does not start until the end of September, so it might actually work this year as an option. I am not sure even I even want to apply, though. I mean, I would absolutely love to be so much closer to my family for an entire summer, but that would also mean unnecessary time away from Sean.