My (very tentative) 3-year plan

So my boss talked to me yesterday, and it sounds very likely I will get a job at Sallie Mae in a few months. Plan A is for my internship to end sometime in September and then for me to become a full-time employee in PMO (the dept I currently am an intern for) in September/October. Other alternative plans in case Plan A doesn't work out for some reason are:

1) PMO doesn't have budget to hire me for October-December, but can hire me in January. This would probably mean the end of my internship in September and would very possibly involve me going back to my job at IUPUI for the rest of the year, then being hired in PMO at Sallie Mae in January.

2) PMO can't hire me. My boss said that he could then probably easily get me a job in another dept in Sallie Mae, possibly OpenNet, where he used to work, which develops what you see on the salliemae.com website.

So the hope is that I will have a full-time job here when October rolls around. Please keep that in your prayers, if you would.

I have full-time summer classes until August 8. I'd appreciate prayers for that too, that I wouldn't be so stressed with that. It is a lot, what with working full-time as well. Then the fall semester starts August 24. So I get a couple of weeks break before it's back to the grind. Another bit of a side note about this next month... at work, the project that I'm working on, the contractor that was helping me with it (he and I have been the only ones currently working on the construction of this web application) left today. He found a full-time job elsewhere. So starting next week, I will kind of have a lot on my shoulders. I will be the only one that's been in this project since the beginning that's actually working on the construction of it. I will have help from some others to finish it, of course, but I'm kind of the only one coding it that knows what's going on right now. And the person that will probably join in helping me has been on vacation for the last week and a half and doesn't get back until Tuesday, so he'll be needing to get up to speed. All this and I'm only an intern! So if seems I'm not "around" (email, message boards, blogs, etc) much during the day, you know why. Pray for me with that too, please.

So here's the (very) tentative plan. Make it through summer classes. Finish internship. Get hired full-time at Sallie Mae. Likely move closer to Sallie Mae in November, when my lease is up. Take last class at IUPUI this fall and graduate in December. Oh, and BTW, because of all this stuff going on and keeping me busy (being at work so many hours because it's a bit of a drive there and back, being at class on campus, doing homework at home when not on campus, etc), I decided it would be better for my dog to be with someone who can spend more time with him right now. So he's pretty much in joint temporary custody w/ my parents and my brother until likely December when I graduate. Then I won't have classes and homework anymore to worry about, and I won't have to drive so far to work if I move, so I won't be gone quite as long during the day. I'm thinking then will be a better time for me to be a "mommy" to him again.
Anyway, that's the plan for the next few months. Then what, you ask? Well, then I will have more time and brain power to do/think about the things I have wanted to do/think about, but haven't had the time/energy to do so because of school. This involves, among other things, spending time with friends, reading, spending time with my dog, and traveling. So right now my plan is kind of to spend these next couple of years just enjoying being out of school and having a job that requires a degree and that pays like it requires a degree.

Another thing I plan on doing over the next couple of years is traveling more, for a couple of reasons. One is simply that I love to travel and see new places. Another is that I don't plan on just living in Indiana for the rest of my life. I want to see what it's like to live somewhere else. And, in fact, I plan on doing just that after working for (give or take) a couple of years. Right now, the only real reason for wanting to move is really just to see what it's like to live somewhere other than Indiana. I don't even know where. Who knows, when that time gets here, I could very well have better reasons for wanting to move. But I do know that I don't want to live out my entire life here in Indiana and not know what it's like to live elsewhere. So I figure that I'll do some traveling and see some places in the next couple of years and figure out where I want to head to for a while. And then go from there.

So that's my (around) 3-year plan. Obviously there are a lot of things that could change it, it's only tentative. It could change just because I changed my mind, or who knows, it might even change because I meet someone I want to live out my life with. (Hopefully if this happens, they will not want to plant roots in Indiana either.) Oh yeah, and one of the next places I plan on visiting in my travels is Washington, D.C., which looks like a very good possibility by (or possibly even before) at least next spring. Not visiting to live there, necessarily (although who knows?), but I do want to see it.

Sorry this post was so long. I hope you made it through the whole thing without getting bored or falling asleep. But this has been on my mind a bit lately, so I just thought I'd share and get feedback, if you have it.