Hey all,
Thank you for the sincere advise. As far as "the rest of the story" that some of you mentioned - I guess my first year I really overloaded myself, so I was having trouble getting things completed. I definitely acknowledged that. We had a frank discussion about it, she told me to work harder on keeping up, and that was that. Ever since then I have really tried to improve my habits and my situation. I got everything off of my plate that I possibly could. I have worked really hard to keep to a schedule. I have never been a morning person, but I even trained myself to wake up at 6am every morning and now I couldn't sleep in if I tried. I was feeling really good about myself, and I thought she had noticed the improvements. Like I said, I am definitely on-track to finish everything on time this semester, which is why it really threw me for a loop when she said I was behind on my coursework responsibilities.
As far as calling Enterprise - I truly feel that I have not set a precedence with her for lying or "playing hooky." If I have set that somehow, I think that is something we definitely need to talk about. I was pretty shocked to be honest. You know, there was a lot more to the story - for example, my fiance's truck is my backup plan, but it too had broken down 2 days before my car. Some of the rental places were going to have cars but not early enough for me to be on time for class. But I always thought that in a professional situation, you spare your "boss" the details. I didn't want to start going into a million little things, so I said no one had a car available. Maybe it wasn't the whole truth, but it wasn't really a lie.
I don't know. It's still bugging me, and I've had nightmares every night. I'm trying not to think about it, but I'm scared to death that I'm going to come on Monday and she's going to tell me I'm kicked out of the program or something. Logically, I know I haven't done anything bad enough to be kicked out, but I'm still freaking out. She still hasn't written me back - I know she's on holiday with her family....I just don't know what to do at this point. I admit I screwed up, but I didn't think it was bad enough to warrant this kind of treatment.