Heading Back Home to MUM

Today has been a good day full of seeing people that I don't see enough or haven't seen in years. To start my day, I went out to a late "brunch" with Cotterman and Jamie at The Brunch Club in Dayton. I had only been there once before with Ryan, and I was glad that my memories of it being delicious and filling were right. Pancakes are as delicious as I remember them being almost 5 months ago when I had them last. I've been craving them for weeks, and I finally got a chance to enjoy some. Though it's hard to top Suso's chocolate chip pancakes that she would make for us on the trip, these were still pretty high up on the list. It was nice to have something that wasn't oatmeal and orange juice for once. I think I may have to get real breakfast a little more often, though not all the time, because it's probably not terribly healthy. After "brunch" I came home for a bit to digest my copious amounts of pancakes, and then headed down to MUM to talk to Mike about possibly coming back to school there. Mike is one of my old professors, and he is so incredibly nice, it was awesome to see him. It made me feel like I was coming back home. From the sounds of it, I can probably get done by the end of next summer. I have put in my application to go back to MUM, and once that goes through, I'm going to sign up for classes for summer (just one), and back to full time in the fall. I'll have to split my time between MUM and the Hamilton campus, but from the sounds of it, Mike said that one of my professors there is a really great professor. I'm really excited to come back, and be able to see the finish line for this degree. From the sounds of it, I will also be able to get a good foundation to find work with a non-profit environmental group, which is what I'm thinking I would like to do. Hopefully this all works out, and I can be on my way to a real job in the near-ish future. Of course I'll probably think about graduate school too, but the idea of Americorps for a year is still there too. It's a nice feeling to be excited for the future, instead of incredibly stressed about all the courses I still need to take before I'll get into the courses I'm excited about. Hooray for the future!