Dream Big!

Yesterday I was able to fit in a jog with Buddy; we stopped at the dog park for our halfway point (only 2.0 miles yesterday) and Buddy had SO much fun playing with his puppy friends!

Today was a rest day for me :) Tomorrow I'm going to try to wake up early and take Buddy on a run before Jack Hanna at SeaWorld!!! SO EXCITED! Definitely going to try to get a picture and autograph! ;)

Anyway, things are going well and I can't believe in one month I will be graduating...moving on to my "big girl" life, and all of the struggles of adult-hood hahaha already been getting a glimpse of those lately and it's ABSOLUTELY NO FUN. But hey, as long as you're doing what you love it's okay, right??

Speaking of...I've been doing a ton of soul-searching lately as I was stuck in education/employment purgatory hahaha and I've decided that I've been trying to talk myself out of wanting to do animal training and do the more sensible thing by going to grad school...I do still want to go to grad school, but I've come to realize that there is a REALLY BIG part of me that would regret if I didn't try to get a job as a trainer and do that for a few years...plus it would be REALLY good experience since I want to do cognition research with captive marine mammals some day, having a background in training would be a HUGE plus!
So as of now, I've given in to my true passion of wanting to be a marine mammal trainer for a few years before continuing my education and going to grad school :)
Now I know that if I had tried to do the more "sensible/logical" thing and go right into grad school, I would always look back and regret not doing training for a while. As much as I love research, I still love training just as much and I think to get to where I want to be for doing research I need to, and want to, do training for a bit :)

YAY FOR EPIPHANIES!!!