St. Patty's Day, World SWK Day, and the stories of my life

Apparently Chicagoians are in no lack of Irish or wanna-be Irish people. St. Patty's Day festivites were enough to make me now what to puke when I see the color green.
My apartment is situated in such a way that there are about 5 Irish Pubs just next door and around the corner. So I bet you can bet what that brought!
Loud, drunk, green-wearing Irish wanna-bes, and lots of them. Festivities began last Thursday and have finally hit a lull today. Morning and night those bars were packed with people. At one point in time I could very clearly sing along to the music on one of the pubs while sitting in the comfort of my apartment. Not that I minded. I always like some good music. It is the cigarette air and the smell of alcohol that makes me turn my head a little. Guess I'm just not the clubbin' type. Who knew?
I was able to avoid all the chaos (don't worry, you Spring Arbor-ites, no smoking or green beer for me!), but it sure was loud around here. I already get the blessing of falling asleep to breaking beer bottles outside my window on a weekend-nightly basis, but these past few days it has been even more musical. :-)
Let's just say that I'm thankful that the festivites are over.

On an unrelated note, yesterday was WORLD SOCIAL WORK DAY!! So happy belated World Social Work Day to all my social work buddies out there. Hope it was a great one.
And it was for me!! Yesterday I hit my 200 hour mark! This means that I am officially half way done with my internship hours. We need 400 to graduate and I am now on the down slope. As much as I love my internship, this is still a good feeling. I'm ready to be done.
The homework, on the other hand, is still very steeply climbing up-hill. I'm not even close to the down slope on that one. Unless you count the fact that I think I'm slipping backwards with the weight of it. I just hope I get it all done. For the first time in my educational career (okay, that isn't totally true), I'm not 100% confident it will get accomplished. (Don't worry, mom, my education is not going to waste.... I will still graduate..... though I may not pull off the 4.0 this semester. Then again.....)

On top of all that is going on, my future has been taking some unexpected (?) changes (don't worry! I'm still getting married in August!!!!!!!) and, low and behold, a bug of some sort has seemed to find me in my weakness.
The combination of stress on top of stress, added in a little more stress isn't a very good combination. Perfect opportunity for those pesky little viruses to attack. I hope I feel better soon....

Nonetheless, things are starting to look up. I'm finding priorties again and hopefully this will help everything else fall into place. And, since I didn't get a Spring Break this year, I'm going home for the weekend. Hardly a Spring Break, but a breath of fresh air will be greatly appreciated.

Off to free Chinese food and Kung Fu Panda night! (A much needed homework break)!!