Decisions, decisions

So a few posts back I was talking about my 1/4 life crisis and what I was going to do with my life. I thought that I had my plan all set: I was going to apply to grad school in CT with Quinnipiac University being my first choice, move home, and go to school full time. When asking one of the docs I work for for a recommendation he told me that I should consider asking my boss if she'll switch my employment to Boston University (let me explain that I work at a hospital affiliated with BU, some people are considered hospital employees and others are BU employees but in theory they can be interchanged). I work with Dr. S. on many things and I think he really wants to keep me around. I told him that my original plan was to take advantage of the tuition reimbursement and go to BU for a masters in public health. The only problem with this was that the reimbursement is only $2,000/year which doesn't even cover one BU class! Anyway, he thought I should try to bargain with my boss and for her to try to get me to stay change over to be a BU employee so I could do school for free. Yea right, I was thinking, anyone could do my job and my boss isn't going to bargain with me to stay.

A few days later Dr. S. emailed me with the recommendation he was going to send to Quinnipiac, and it was so nice! It really made me feel great that he thought highly of me and appreciates the work I do. He called me later in the afternoon and told me that he had been doing some investigation on how willing people would be to keep me and it seems like they are pretty willing. He brought up changing over to BU and I asked if he had talked to my boss A. about this which he said he had. Crap! Well that was my initial reaction because I hadn't yet told my boss that I was applying to school and I'd probably be leaving, I didn't want to talk to her until I was sure that I had gotten and was leaving. Well it turns out that A. would be willing to do the paperwork to change me over to BU is I wanted to stay! Wow! I was really surprised at this. Dr. S. went on to tell me that I was really good at my job (he said probably because I'm overqualified which I have to agree with) and that if I wanted to stay and go to BU he'd help arrange it. Of course I'd have to apply to the public health program and get in but its an option.

I first thought that I'd definitely take this opportunity but then thinking about it I realized that its not so simple. On one hand I could stay in Boston (a city I love), go to a great school for free, but it'd take four years to do it part time, and I don't really like my job that much. On the other hand I could go to CT to live with my parents (not an ideal situation since I've been on my own for the past year), go to school full time, be done in two years, but Quinnipiac only became my first choice after it seemed like BU was not an option. I guess I have a lot to think about now with this new information. I'll also have to look for a new apartment if I decide to stay in Boston, so hopefully I can find something cheaper than what I'm paying now. Everyone keeps telling me that whatever I decide will all work out and I'm sure that's true but its just stressful at the moment.

NOW, in knitting related news I finished my first pair of socks!!! I used Silver's Sock Class to learn and it was so much easier than I thought it was going to be. When first reading through the directions I thought there was no way that I'd ever be able to make socks but once I started doing it, everything went pretty smoothly. There are a few wonky spots but all in all I think they turned out pretty well.

I've also decided that I'm going to re-dye my yarn that I did last weekend. This weekend I'll get some more grape Kool-Aid and do it over. It took forever for me to untangle the mess, so I've tied it up much more for this time around and it should be alright. I think I'm going to use extra Kool-Aid this time so I can get a nice deep color. Maybe 4 grape, 2 black cherry? I think so.

Sorry for such a looooong post, and thanks for bearing with me through all of this. *Hugs* for all you blog readers out there (I'm not sure if there are any but just in case) :)