It's finished -- over and out, done, ready to turn in tomorrow night: a 15-page paper on St. Peter's Dome, complete with 60-plus footnotes, a 2-page bibliography, and 14 images. The monstrosity that has dominated my life for weeks and weeks is behind me, and I'm off for a walk to enjoy springtime without the weight of that particular item monopolizing my "To Do" list.
This morning I also ran errands and managed to purchase a short term health insurance policy for one of my college sons, who announced last week that he plans to drop a course, which will relegate him to part-time student status for the remainder of the quarter. "Not so fast," I ordered, before going off to investigate and discovering that, sure enough, immediately upon his dropping said class, both our medical and dental insurance would consider him ineligible for coverage until he is a fulltime student once again next fall. (Not that one should assume that any such thing will happen... .). I could go into a long rant about the state of health insurance in this country and our President's misplaced obsession with Social Security, which might be better directed at the REAL funding crisis we face, the one for medical care for individuals not umbillically attached to a large corporate employer, but I've been muttering about that all week-end. So I'll spare you.
It's SPRING out there. A cold, damp, and cloudy but nevertheless post-equinox day. Things can only be looking up.
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That has to be the center of a wonderful red tulip. Good luck on the research paper.
Jackie
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If it's not one thing it's another. Glad you got your paper done and the insurance issue worked out. Enjoy the springtime weather.
Don't say "spring" too loudly...it might decide to snow on you again. You guys have had a really l-o-n-g winter out there. Lisa :-]
Congratulations on finishing the paper. Is it online?
Congratulations on completing your paper. To have the weight taken off your shoulders of something you've worked so long and hard on must be such a relief. Good job on completing it ahead of schedule.
Judith
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Oh, don't get me started on medical coverage in this, the richest country on earth...! Grrrr!
Meanwhile, congratulations on finishing the paper - I was in school a few short years ago as a Middle-Aged Woman, and I remember the stress and pressure I puton myself to do well. And oh, the relief when finishing something as mighty as this project - WELL DONE AND HOW GOOD IT MUST FEEL!!!
Vicky
Congratulations on finishing that paper!! Enjoy these post-equinox days. They are wonderful.
There is nothing like the feeling of getting an onerous task off your back. Maybe I should go read those Hamlet papers. Naaaaah.
What an enormous relief to finish that monster! The picture is beautiful.
Robin, I don't know the ins and outs of this, but my daughter (who is in college), goes to the college clinic when she is sick and she doesn't have to pay a thing. She is still on our insurance, but since she now lives away, she goes to their clinic when she is sick and it's free of charge if you are a student. Now this doesn't help your son once summer comes, but until school is over, that might be an option if this is something that is available where he goes to school.
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