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In other news, I just got back from an info session on the counseling grad program and Seattle U. The time has come for me to give in to the inevitable, and become a shrink. I suspect I'll be more interested in the Masters of Psychology than counseling, but the meeting did make me think that I just might be able to be a school counselor, since I've met a few teenagers who didn't make me want to tear my hair out, and I love them to death. (Granted, they might just be more mature than average kids). I'm definitely interested in Seattle University. They actively promote all the values I wish wider Catholicism promoted: social justice, tolerance, diversity and all that. When a guy asked about how pervasive the whole Catholic thing was, the presenter basically said, "dude, we're on Capitol Hill, and we have openly gay faculty." So that wipes away the last traces of worry I might have had on that front.

Assuming I can get past all the academic hurdles, (My GPA sucks, math skills suck, ability to write analytically sucks) and don't decide next week that I'm bonkers, I think I have a good shot at getting into one of their programs. There are more info sessions in my future. (I'm looking at Counseling, Existential and Phenomenological Psychology, and Theology. I must say, I would be highly amused to become a Doctor of Divinity, and you know what? I'd make a damned fine ethics advisor. YOU WILL NOT LIE! AT ALL!!! NOW GO STAND IN A CORNER!!)