Gearing up

The weather is getting chillier, Halloween costumes are being constructed, lights and spiderwebs are being hung, pumpkins being carved, holiday plans are being sketched out, and the second born Anderson family is narrowing down graduate school choices and studying for the GRE.

I don't know what made me think I would have little involvement in this process... I have spent the last week looking up the average GPA and GRE scores of students accepted into programs all over the country.  As well as how many stipends and assistantships are offered, whether or not it's been accredited by the APA, and countless other facts.  I have become an expert at skimming and finding the necessities from even the most poorly constructed of websites. 

On a side note- How in the world can you claim to be a highly selective, revered program that can offer full tuition plus a stipend to all of its doctoral students, but not afford to hire someone with the skills to organize a website for you?

I fell asleep on the couch last night as Evan was shouting out characteristics from the last couple of schools for me to write down.  I woke up an hour later to find him in the bedroom studying (he turned the lights out in the living room for me.  I vaguely remember him trying to convince me to move to the bed... I'm not cooperative in that state).  He finally turned the lights out around 1, and made me think he was going to sleep.  I found him back in the living room working on his personal statement when I woke up for a pee break at 3 - he was already a page in.  Then we narrowed our list down and I was able to convince him to go to sleep at 4 am.

Hopefully, after the GRE, once applications have been filled out, the waiting part will be much easier on my husband's sleep cycle.  Though I'm skeptical.

I'm grateful for my husband and his strength and dedication.  For his patience and understanding.  Gearing up for this new stage in our life is stressful, but even more so it is exciting.