[over] committed

I am in love with my jobs. I teach the best kids in America that make me laugh, even at my most angry. The have exceeded every expectation laid before them and are growing and growing and growing. That's job #1.

Job #2 is working for the Global Autism Project as the "Peru Outreach Coordinator." And while that isn't an everyday-all day sort of job, it's the kind that is all consuming in my wildest day dreams. When I think about "Light it Up Blue", I am so full of pride for "my people", and so filled with envy for my kids in Cuzco. What if, in the most rural places, and the most heinous cities, we all lit it up blue in camaraderie? What if someday, we lit it up blue not to spread the word, but only to edify and support those with autism -- because the word was SPREAD? Big dreamin'.

[Also, this job 'requires' that I fly up to both New York and Seattle in May. What the what?! That's awesome.]

I am the first to admit my deficits when it comes to all of this though. I have loved learning the clinical aspects of autism, ABA, and effective interventions at the University of Georgia over the last 2.5 years. However, rallying to finish this degree is proving to be a major challenge. I am not someone who thrives on being precise. Unfortunately, that is a bit of a requirement. Precise and thorough. Blerg. I am thankful, though for the last 2.5 years in this fellowship program, which has taught me a whole lot. Largely, to question things. I know what evidence-based means, and I know what it means to people with autism.

So, on this evening of over exertion, I am so immensely thankful to be right smack dab in the thick of it. I'd also like for someone to remind me of that intermittently, because to get to May, there will be whining.
Is this blog post just a tool to procrastinate my literature review? Yep.

Also. Look at my roommate.