First of many
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infinitehippo!!
My cubemate is playing the Juno soundtrack. Blech.
I didn't post all that much last year, and I hope to change that this year. I'm going to see if I can post at least a real paragraph every day, if I can. (Let's see how long this lasts).
So, as I've been teasing the last couple of days, I'm embarking on something of an adventure in the first half of 2008. As many of you know, 2007 wasn't my favorite year by any stretch of the imagination. I was preoccupied by a lot of things, none of them worth really too much thought. I was borderline obsessed with finding a boyfriend before a certain date, and I spent thousands of hours worrying about things that were not improved by worrying. All I succeeded in doing was driving myself (and several people around me) crazy.
I was on the phone with my mom on Sunday night, and in a moment of mild exasperation, she suggested that I "take a class or something." To her, all of this panic and worry stemmed from boredom, and it was high time I got off my brain and give it something to do instead of waste away. She's suggested this a couple of times before, but I wrote it off. I never found anything that I really connected with. Until now, obviously.
February is going to be a big month for me. In addition to two very exciting concerts, I will be going back to school! I have a one-day seminar called "Jump Start Your Novel," on the 9th. The following Tuesday I will begin a class in Humor and Comedy Writing that lasts for 10 sessions. I'm pretty jazzed about both. I stumbled across the comedy class by accident, and the course description made me laugh, so I thought about it for a day or two, then signed up for both of them (withredesigner holding my hand via IM). I took deep breaths and reminded myself that if this guy sucks, I can withdraw and get most of my money back after 1-2 classes. (I was always good at picking up on a professor's potential suckitude, so hopefully that little bit of school-fu is still present in me.)
The best part? These are both at NYU. And since I will be a student there, I can mock the place to my heart's content. There is no downside.
These are going to be a test. If I acclimate well to the whole school thing, I am almost certainly going to pursue some sort of paralegal certificate starting in the fall. I basically like what I do, and that is largely what I do, plus some other extremely useful skills. And, when your company does tuition reimbursement, it's stupid not to at least try to take advantage of it. I always planned to, but I never had a plan to before now.
In some way, I'm glad I waited. I wasn't ready before now. The idea of taking classes and being back in a school environment used to give me hives, now it's really exciting me. I enrolled yesterday, now I just have to wait for my course kit to arrive in the mail. I needed something new - I see now that I was stagnating and I needed something radically different to be excited about and involved in. The prospect of taking these classes was more exciting to me than taking a trip anywhere, so I took that as a sign that I should do this. There will be plenty of time to travel later this year or next.
Every time I think about doing this, I smile, and that's all I really need to know.
infinitehippo!! My cubemate is playing the Juno soundtrack. Blech.
I didn't post all that much last year, and I hope to change that this year. I'm going to see if I can post at least a real paragraph every day, if I can. (Let's see how long this lasts).
So, as I've been teasing the last couple of days, I'm embarking on something of an adventure in the first half of 2008. As many of you know, 2007 wasn't my favorite year by any stretch of the imagination. I was preoccupied by a lot of things, none of them worth really too much thought. I was borderline obsessed with finding a boyfriend before a certain date, and I spent thousands of hours worrying about things that were not improved by worrying. All I succeeded in doing was driving myself (and several people around me) crazy.
I was on the phone with my mom on Sunday night, and in a moment of mild exasperation, she suggested that I "take a class or something." To her, all of this panic and worry stemmed from boredom, and it was high time I got off my brain and give it something to do instead of waste away. She's suggested this a couple of times before, but I wrote it off. I never found anything that I really connected with. Until now, obviously.
February is going to be a big month for me. In addition to two very exciting concerts, I will be going back to school! I have a one-day seminar called "Jump Start Your Novel," on the 9th. The following Tuesday I will begin a class in Humor and Comedy Writing that lasts for 10 sessions. I'm pretty jazzed about both. I stumbled across the comedy class by accident, and the course description made me laugh, so I thought about it for a day or two, then signed up for both of them (with
redesigner holding my hand via IM). I took deep breaths and reminded myself that if this guy sucks, I can withdraw and get most of my money back after 1-2 classes. (I was always good at picking up on a professor's potential suckitude, so hopefully that little bit of school-fu is still present in me.) The best part? These are both at NYU. And since I will be a student there, I can mock the place to my heart's content. There is no downside.
These are going to be a test. If I acclimate well to the whole school thing, I am almost certainly going to pursue some sort of paralegal certificate starting in the fall. I basically like what I do, and that is largely what I do, plus some other extremely useful skills. And, when your company does tuition reimbursement, it's stupid not to at least try to take advantage of it. I always planned to, but I never had a plan to before now.
In some way, I'm glad I waited. I wasn't ready before now. The idea of taking classes and being back in a school environment used to give me hives, now it's really exciting me. I enrolled yesterday, now I just have to wait for my course kit to arrive in the mail. I needed something new - I see now that I was stagnating and I needed something radically different to be excited about and involved in. The prospect of taking these classes was more exciting to me than taking a trip anywhere, so I took that as a sign that I should do this. There will be plenty of time to travel later this year or next.
Every time I think about doing this, I smile, and that's all I really need to know.
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Date: 2008-01-02 08:45 pm (UTC)I guess you just have to go in expecting the prof to love certain things and hate others, and allow yourself to be pleasantly surprised if that's not all.