We play the waiting game around here a lot.\u00a0 Most military families do.\u00a0 You wait for your the serving fmily member to finish training.\u00a0 You wait for the shift to end.\u00a0 You wait to find out if\/when your spouse will be sent away. You wait for tid-bits of information.\u00a0 You wait to make plans because you never know if\/when your spouse will be sent off to the great white north, western wilds, down south, or overseas. You wait to find out where in the country you’ll be living next.\u00a0 You either get used to waiting or you split up.<\/p>\n
I suck at waiting.\u00a0 I don’t like surprises either.\u00a0 Through most of our “waiting periods” I’ve been fortunate enough to be gallivanting all over the world.\u00a0 Waiting for answers doesn’t seem as bad if you’re not stuck at home while you wait.<\/p>\n
We’ve been in hurry up and wait <\/em>mode since January of this year.\u00a0 The election call has now extended that wait period.\u00a0 I’m not-so-slowly going crazy.<\/p>\n On odd occassions I can manage waiting if there is an end goal in sight.\u00a0 Ergo, I’ve been struggling with<\/span> patiently waiting for my grades from last semester to be released.\u00a0 For weeks the student portal has indicated final grades would be posted on Sept. 12.\u00a0 I’ve tried my best not to log in every day checking to see how I did in my Summer courses.\u00a0 It’s not been easy avoiding the site and it’s shiny Login<\/strong> button.\u00a0 Somehow I manged.\u00a0 Today’s the big day.\u00a0 I logged in at 8am.\u00a0 Did I mention I have today and Monday off?\u00a0 Finally took some vacation days.\u00a0 I’m supposed to be studying and doing my assignments for this semester’s courses.\u00a0 Not actually happening but that was the plan.\u00a0 Anywho, I’m way off in another plane I’ve digressed so far. Meanwhile back at the student portal… My grades weren’t posted at 8am.\u00a0 They weren’t posted when I checked again at noon.\u00a0 It’s now 4:15 MT and they’re still not posted.\u00a0 Which means they won’t be posted before Monday now.\u00a0 Cause it’s after 6pm in ‘Scario and no one – especially not academics and government employees – is working after 6pm in ‘Scario on a Friday!<\/p>\n You might as well reserve my room at Alberta Hosp. in Ponoka.\u00a0 If I’m not nuts already – and I suspect I am – I will be by the time my waiting is over…<\/p>\n Hope everyone has a great weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We play the waiting game around here a lot.\u00a0 Most military families do.\u00a0 You wait for your the serving fmily member to finish training.\u00a0 You wait for the shift to end.\u00a0 You wait to find out if\/when your spouse will be sent away. You wait for tid-bits of information.\u00a0 You wait to make plans because […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-frothing-at-the-bit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=840"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":843,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840\/revisions\/843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}