I've said it before, I'll say it again... If I could stand to cross multiply or count things, I'd become a scientist.
The quarter is over, and I am itching to go from physics to astronomy. I'm taking 15 credits again next quarter, so it'll be good ole invisible-sonya for the next few months. If I can finish these classes now and 10 credits in the summer session, I'll be a community college graduate.
It's been a year since I quit the reception desk job. I was just thinking about how ass-backward it is that I quit a job that paid twice what I'm getting now so that I can go to school more--when going to school more costs twice as much. But you know what? Even though my new job is more tired making for the body, sometimes more stressful for the mind, and way way more financially...uh...adventurous, I never feel like my life is wasting away while I'm there.
"but Sonya!" you say "No upward mobility!"
and I reply "Yes, but all the physical mobility I can stand."
Ooh, astronomy. I still occasionally pull out my three-volume "Burnham's Celestial Guide" just to look at far-off galactic nebulae in glorious black-and-white.
Not that there's anything wrong with all those amazing color Hubble telescope photos, but sometimes I just want to settle into the "old school" point-of-view, before the Hubble Constant, before the Big Bang, before CCD photography, when you'd have to actually use your eyes to pour over negative-image glass plate exposures and try to spot the one tiny black dot out of ten thousand that moved a fraction of an inch.
Posted by: COMTE at March 20, 2006 03:52 PMI still have binders filled with notes and knowledge from ye olde college years. I wrote the best paper of my life for Theatre in Asia about the effects of the Vietnam War on theatre forms in Southeast Asia. It makes me feel brilliant that not only did I write it, I came up with the idea for the paper.
I love school. I've always loved going to school.
Posted by: JtotheP at March 20, 2006 07:32 PM