So, wow, Buffy - you really take the cake on that one. I really hope that all is going as well as it can! You are lucky to have very helpful and caring Brent to be there to help you. :)

Guess I'll give an update on me, other than just letting you know the gifts I was given. And, sorry Tom, the purse is just pretty. It does zip and unzip though, does that get anything?

As of today, I have 4 1/2 days of full-time work here at my office. After that I will still be working here part-time, coming in once a week and doing an hour or so of work at night after studying/class. As I mentioned in my last blog, the lady we hired about a month ago decided over the weekend that this wasn't the best fit for her and so she just didn't show up on Monday. We were all pretty relieved actually because we knew it wasn't a good fit for us either. But now we are sort of scrambling to find someone to take over for me when I stop doing most of the things I do here in a week. Since there are only four other people that work here, we are shifting around job responsibilities for now and starting to search again for someone to take the job. Hopefully that will happen sooner than later. So in my remaining week I am finishing up some big in-office projects and training the others to do my job.

Next Wednesday I start with the school schtuff. I have my new graduate orientation at SDSU that day. I'm not sure how much of it I am going to go to since I think it is for undergrads too but it will at least get me to the school so I can take care of other business and buying supplies and things. I've already gotten one email from a professor telling us to bring our laptops to the first day of class...guess I'd better be ready to jump right in!

Then Labor Day weekend I will be playing all over SoCal with trips to LA, Hollywood, Disneyland and all over San Diego, enjoying my last weekend of freedom for a while.

Classes officially start on Tuesday September 2nd. I only have one class (Finance...ew) on Tuesdays that doesn't start until 6pm so I'll have most of that day to relax and prepare. I have decided to take the SD trolley to school instead of driving. There is a trolley station across the street from my apartment and one on the SDSU campus so it only takes about 10 minutes to get there. It'll save me buying a parking permit, save $$ on gas and eleviate the headache of actually finding the parking you paid for. I think it will also be nice to have some time, albeit only 10 minutes, before class to just sit and relax.

I'm also going to be going to a Study Abroad info session in the first week or so of class to see how do-able my "semester in London" would be for next year and how it would fit into my program. I really want to do it so hopefully it will work out well with the classes I need to take and what they offer.

Anyway, need to get back to work and training some peeps!