I’m working really hard to just stay behind on my homework. Blogging is getting the short shrift. So to make a long story short, I didn’t submit my paperwork properly for BYU’s accounting program and didn’t realize it until it was too late. They said I could take the senior classes this year instead but there would be no guarantee of getting into the junior core next year. And I would have to take Acc 301 (financial and managerial which I already took at UVU and got As in) and get nothing lower than an A-.
I said, “What if I get a B+?”
“Then you don’t get in. But UVU would probably accept all those senior classes and you could transfer back.”
That would have meant taking 5 classes this semester. I did that once before so I know the stress would be huge and I’d never see my kids. And I had already booked a flight to Missouri and wasn’t going to be around to straighten it out when someone was available at BYU to help me. I had to decide quickly and I’d like to think there was some divine intervention steering me. I was also going to lose my job if I went the BYU route. I think I kind of need it.
So I’m at UVU taking 12 credit hours: Corporate Finance which I really enjoy. I’m afraid it’s going to get much harder though before we’re through if my friends Jeff H., Mark D. and Shelia C. are correct; Intermediate Accounting—seems to come easy to me compared to normal people. Or maybe it’s because I’ve worked in the lab and have done the homework from financial and managerial many times over in the tutoring process; Marketing—it’s okay but not my favorite thing; and International Business. I like int’l bus. but my professor is from China so he’s hard to understand. He got a master’s degree at Harvard so he puts r’s on the end of words that don’t have them. Some examples of things he says are—“systerm” for system. Ooh, Word doesn’t like my spelling. “Criterior” for criteria, “wire me” for Wyoming, “quoter” for quota, etc. I get a little distracted from the topic at hand, writing down the funny things he says.
I also moved to Orem two days before the semester started (by the way, I don’t recommend this) about 4 blocks from my friend Kathy Benson—but I haven’t even called to tell her because it’s been so crazy busy. I guess I’m not that great of a friend. She’s working on a bachelor’s degree, too so she hasn’t noticed my delinquency. I’ll try to make it up to you when I graduate, Kathy and anyone else I’m neglecting. That would be Victoria, Ben, Ben’s little brother, Jack; Claudya, William; Tad and Aurora; and possibly some of their parents, my sons and daughters-in-law. Sorry, this is as fast as I can run, at the moment.
So life is good. I hesitate to mention anything of a religious or spiritual bent (I’ll leave that to my friend Sariyd.) Let me say that there is real unseen power. It operates in my life, even though I’m one small speck of humanity and this brings me joy. Hardship and pain make their appearance, too but I feel unspeakable gratitude for the good things.
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