Finally I can turn my attention to my written comprehensive exams for my Master of Church Music degree. After 7 years of coursework, recital preparation and execution, dissertation writing and learning, I now need to recall and remember EVERYTHING! Yikes! No small feat for someone with chemo brain, I assure you. I have not had time to properly prepare. I have created study cards, written out answers to the questions, and tried desperately to be prepared for whatever may come. Now I have lost valuable time that I will not be able to make up.
I have to say I was not looking forward to a 12 hour drive, but things are what they are. Here I am driving driving driving all day all day all day. I want to stop and just work on memorization, but I cannot. I must Get There. And when I do get there, I encounter one last curve. We are now - at long last and deservedly so - housed in the new dorm. Nice. Air conditioned. View of the lake incredible. But I have to learn new ropes and find my way with less than a lot of assistance. Everyone else has been in them for weeks, and I am not in the same wing as they are.
No matter. It only takes me a short while to settle in, unpack and take a deep breath. I lay out my study guides and materials, but I am too worn out to do much more than a cursory look before I fall into bed. Tomorrow. Tomorrow I will get one entire day to pull it all together. God help me, I hope it will be enough.
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