feeling it in me water
Well so *that* was one of the most mentally exhausting days I've had in a long time. My head was nodding the whole drive back to Cape Cod (dangerous but true!), and when I got home I staggered into my bedroom, changed into sweats, and collapsed in an unsightly heap and slept like a stone for two solid hours.
LIKE A STONE.
Of course I didn't help my case by only getting about four hours of sleep and then spending all day trying to charm the pants off of a room full of strangers.
I don't know why, I can't help it! I meet new people and I get all lounge act-y.
No, actually I was pretty well-behaved. I did have a heck of a good time with someone I had met in the spring at the Simmons Leadership Conference. Liana and I are similar in age and professional background, and it would seem in temperament as well. We're also both commuting from over an hour away to the Simmons SOM night classes, which makes us a special kind of crazy. Really looking forward to being in classes with her.
One of the first things I noticed about Simmons was how, when I was going through the application and interview process, every time I went to an event at Simmons I would drive home ELATED. Literally I would feel like doing that arms-spread-wide-over-the-bow-of-the-Titanic thing while driving back home over the Sagamore Bridge. And I never even SAW that awful movie!
Tonight I had the same feeling, mixed this time with a profound sense of relief. It wasn't so much relief that I had gotten in, or that classes had finally begun, but because, during the day today, I felt like I belonged.
I had been worried.
I don't come from a corporate background, and I had had a lingering fear that I would be terribly out of place amongst all the junior executives from State Street that I imagined would be in my class.
What I felt today was a wonderful sense of certainty that is all too often missing from life: the deep, internal knowledge that you are doing the right thing.
I'm in the right place.
(Let's see if I still feel that way during financial reporting and analysis.)
Posted: August 23, 2008 10:53 pm | 1 comment
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Beth,
Again, you shall be missed in the part-time program...hope to see you in some electives along the way!
Lisa
said Lisa Perry
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