Efforts rewarded

Today, when I woke up, my apartment was a mess and chaotic. Tonight, it is more ordered than it has been since I moved in, greatly helped by new furniture and decisions on furnishings. There's still more to go, including painting my table red and assembling a couple other things, but it will be greatly helped when they remove my extra furniture and I get my new fridge. I can't wait to have my prayer corner up in my room, and my table. That will put the finishing touches on the bedroom, and I can finally get that organized. Plus it would be nice to have the use of the prayer corner, I've missed it. It makes such a difference to have a corner set aside to praying, instead of doing it next to or on the bed/couch/desk, etc. I'm excited about the new colors in my apartment. I no longer have only blue, I've branched out to blue, green, reds and woods. :) Yay for diversity!
Tomorrow is Labor Day, and yet we have class. The staff are all off, but we're told that we, at least the grad students, have class. Apparently it's not labor-full for the profs to lecture. I am glad that my analysis professor has office hours tomorrow evening at least, and I plan to be there to ask questions. That's all that's going to help at this point, is asking lots of questions and not being afraid of mistakes.
I got to talk to one of my soul sisters today, I hadn't talked to her since right after her honeymoon. It's still strange to think of her as married, plus one of our other sisters got married a couple weeks ago! Now 2/5 of the Hameginim sisters are married. Crazy. It was so lovely to talk to her though. As we were talking, I said aloud, mostly to myself again, that all I can do is keep praying and grad school will work. I say that I'm not afriad of hard work, and I'm not. This is just entirely different hard work than the hard work I've encountered before. Not necessarily harder, just a different form. One person has said this will be the hardest year of our lives, and I had to disagree. One person asked me how they could help make this the best year of my life, and I don't think that's possible either ;). It will be a very important year though, and whatever happen will be for the best. God has a plan for me, who am I to question it? He obviously doesn't think this is too hard for me, otherwise I wouldn't be here.
"He will never deal unjustly with any one, neither will He task a soul beyond its power. He, verily, is the Compassionate, the All-Merciful."