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I am about to finish out yet another semester of college, and it is at this time that I feel I should probably look back and make some reflections upon that note. For one thing, this has been a crazy semester. Hurricane Ike struck the Texas coast, and as it did so my life took some strange turns. For one, I developed a respiratory illness immediately following the passage of the hurricane (which has me wondering if that is a coincidence at all). For two, the illness caused me to fall behind by almost a month in school before eventually catching back up to the point I am at now. For three, it feels like it is about to end before it even began.

Here is a voice blog that I posted on the Barton Ct. Snapvine page before the hurricane hit:

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I quit my job at a Ride Supervisor for a while because well, I kind of had to. The Kemah Boardwalk got torn to bits during the hurricane and all I had left to do afterward was transfer to the Downtown Aquarium, but even that, I have also stopped. I plan to return to the Kemah Boardwalk to begin working again now that the semester is over and will continue to do so until the next semester starts, on December 12th until January 19th.

I was looking more deeply into my 4 year degree plan recently when I discovered that I am not nearly as close to graduating as I had hoped. What confused me about the degree is that the University of Houston only requires 33 credit hours that actually go toward your major, the rest of your 120 total minimum credit hours are core classes and electives. That means that even after the next two semesters when I have all of my required major classes, I still have to take another full year of electives. Granted, they will probably be psychology electives, but more importantly: it strikes me as kind of a waste.

I suppose it’s not all bad. I negotiated with my dada bit to get a little bit more financial support and he has agreed to provide it. I am going to school free of charge. And I have a general plan to carry out over the next two years.

For the remainder of 2008 – I will finish out this semester and work what might be my final hours at the Kemah Boardwalk before likely quitting there forever to go seek an internship related to psychology.

In 2009, I will be taking 8 more classes, at least 7 of which will be psychology classes. During the summer of 2009, I will hopefully be working an internship. On the weekends, in addition to studying, I will be continuing my efforts with Barton Ct. Productions Inc. and completing much of the music that my friend Chris and I never got to finish with our newly furbished band, Sobrakay. Our first show will be May 8th at Fitzgerald’s.

In 2010 the cycle repeats school wise, but this time it will be my final core classes (if any) and a bunch of electives. By this point, Barton Ct. will hopefully have released a nice product assortment of a couple music CD’s, a feature length documentary, Dirty Mechanism Apparel, maybe a book or two, and the first season of our new comedy series. All of which will begin its tour around Houston and southern Texas. The real momentum will begin in the years following 2010, however, when college is out of the way for most of the company’s associated members.

In 2011, I will have graduated with my Bachelors of Science in Psychology from University of Houston, and will have begun my career in that field, likely as a counselor. From there, I only go BACK to school to begin working on my doctorate. About the only thing that would prevent me from going back to working on my doctorate this far down the line would be if Barton Ct. were to see an incredible amount of unprecedented success and be able to fully sustain itself. Only time will tell what happens. The year of mystery, at this point of my writing, is 2011.

My dream is a weird split one at this point. On one hand, I love the possibilities of where my psychology career could go and projects like my old blog, ScottFreeThinking.com, are an experimental testament to what I could eventually accomplish as a real life, practicing psychologist. On the other hand, Barton Ct. Productions has become an inspiration and continues to gain an increasing following over time with its achievements. Chances are somewhat elevated that I will always, in some way or another, be associated with Barton Ct. and the people who make it what it is, but there is also a strong chance I will have a career rooted in psychology also.