Can't have everything

[cjsmith]

I got an invitation to call at an event in 2010 where I would have loved to call, absolutely loved it. But it's in the middle of the school year, in the middle of a quarter, and I just couldn't come up with any sane way I could commit to it. Just now I sent my "regrets" e-mail.

The Japan calling gig coming up, booked in something like 2006, is hosing me badly enough, even though it's only knocking out finals week of winter quarter and the first day of classes of spring. Even that, I never would have booked if I'd known what I'd be doing now. It's a major mess. But technically I don't have to get worse grades for being absent during a final, as long as I can make arrangements to take the exam at another time. In the middle of the quarter, there's no possible way I wouldn't lose big. Except maybe taking that quarter off.

And y'know, if I don't get into vet school first try, I could take that quarter off if I wanted to. But I can't count on anything.

*sigh*

I really wanted to go. :-(

Comments

[billeyler.livejournal.com]

I'm with you there. I've turned down and will have to continue to turn down engagements that conflict with this nutso weekend and night work schedule I randomly have.

Like you, the frustration of it is that the engagements are several years down the line and trying to guess what future conflicts there will be is just crazy.

Sorry you had to nix that one!

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

The guesswork about the future is indeed frustrating. I know, intellectually, that I could have made no other decision than this. But I also know that if May 2010 comes and I could have gone, I'll kick myself into next week. Gah!

[bjarvis.livejournal.com]

I'd like to have you back to DC some time but February is likely going to be a bad month for you for a few years. How long is your school stuff going to mess with your schedule?

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Basically, five to six more years. The big question is whether I get admitted to a veterinary school on my first attempt. If I do -- severely unlikely -- I'll graduate in the spring of 2014. If I don't -- very likely -- I'll get fall 2010/spring 2011 off, and graduate in 2015.

Dang. I'd enjoy DC!

[quasigeostrophy.livejournal.com]

Yeah, stuff like that's been one of the suckier aspects of returning to school - abandoning a lot of my previous life. I'm with you. *hugs*

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

I hear you. And there's no telling when we can get back to some of those things. Heck, square dance calling might be kind of hard to un-abandon. I sure hope all this is worth it.

[stormecho.livejournal.com]

I too have placed things 'ON HOLD'.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Frustrating, isn't it? But I know I'll be happier once I'm done, as I suspect you will. Ah, can't have everything (at least not all at the same time).