Tuesday, December 30, 2008

The End

So I reached the end of Pre-Calculus and managed to pull off a B+. Not bad for someone who had to deal with death before Exam 2 and was introduced to Trigonometry before Exam 3 with the incredulous words, "You've never had Trig before at all??"

I survived. I made it through, and my crazy instructor thinks I'm ready for more. But I showed him -- I changed my major. No more math for me, just have to survive foreign language. And Intro to Jewish Studies. Although, that really does sound like an interesting class.

So......wondering what my major is? Did you even know what my former major was? Don't feel bad if you didn't -- Christy still thought I was working towards becoming a Web Developer. hehehe

My point is, I'm not offended by what you do or don't remember. In fact, it takes quite a lot to offend me, but I digress.

My newly elected (and hopefully final) major is English. I suppose it's what I should have been majoring in all along, given my propensity for the written word and English language. But, then, I've never been one to go quietly into that good night. So, as my dad always said, "You always have to do things the hard way, don't you?" I suppose in this instance (and many, MANY others) it's true. I took the long way round, but as Robert Frost once wrote, "Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, and I, I took the one less traveled by. And that has made all the difference."

The journey is never dull, except occasionally between classes when I find myself horribly un-intellectually stimulated and I do crazy things like send articles to magazines for publication.

But I digress again. I'm good at that, but so is my sister, as we found out spending 4+ hours gabbing at a local pizza joint. :D

I'm majoring in English, I'm signed up for Intro to Jewish Studies in the Spring, and I'm slated to take Linguistics in the summer semester if I can work the hours into my work schedule. This summer I'll be cramming French into my brain and hoping to God I can test out of all the semesters afterward.

From there, I'll have 11 more classes to take and then I'll graduate. That's right, sometime in the not-so-distant future (really, it's NOT that distant.......honest.....) this slow boat to China will have finally earned her Bachelor's. The really REALLY hard way.

KIDS: Don't try this at home. Stay in school. No matter what some psycho Tom Cruise/Tom Hanks lookalike combo person says who claims to be in love with you but will only wreck your life in six years says........ STAY IN SCHOOL.

Okay. Public announcement over with. Are you enjoying this stream of consciousness post? I am, it's rather fun. Rather like a conversation with you, only nobody ever writes back. Ever.

Not that I don't enjoy people writing back, it just rarely happens. Even when I give nice comments and such, they still don't write back. Hmmm....

Anyway, have I bored you yet? Probably. But now you'll have some great fodder for the next family get-together. What's that? You have BETTER things to talk about than my inane actions? Well thank God for small favors.

*giggle*

Happy Holidays Everyone!

FLB

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Monkeys monkeys everywhere,
but not a drop to drink...

I read your post,
it is the toast!

And the oven, the toilet,
the sink.

*waving happily*

Your Crazy Code Monkey

jenni said...

Ok -- So just the other day I was wondering if you made it through Calc... YAY for small miracles... But really.. you've NEVER had TRIG?? wow that's surprising that you took Calc first...
And English sounds like a great major for you.. As for FOUR hrs in a pizza hut.. WTH ?
AND If you were ever on IM anymore I WOULD chat with you.. but your not so :P...

Fluffy Bunny Slippers said...

Well, let's put it this way -- if I DID have Trig, I don't remember it. ANY of it.

Which, is entirely possible given that I have NO recollection of a history class I took in the 90's and got a C in! *giggle*