Writing in the Corner

I signed up last Friday for Organizational Communications, a three credit hour course in oral and written communication in business. After I registered, I met with a professor I liked very much who advises accounting majors. Mr. Wright (CPA, MBA) assured me that as long as there is an Internal Revenue Service, there will be a need for accountants here in the United States. He encouraged me to sign up for the basic accounting courses during first and second summer terms. Because I can’t go to school during Summer II, and because the hours are not convenient, I am not going to do that. However, I did look at the requirements for the major, and, in a moment of bravery and ambition, added pre-calculus to my schedule.

Summer term really slams here…a course that normally meets twice a week for four months meets daily for six weeks (Org Comm) or eight (Pre-Calc). I have an hour commute in to the city every day. I still have to look for work, and try to keep the house running. Fortunately, it’s not even two months, and it will go by in a blink. I just hope it doesn’t mess up my GPA.

I will probably report in every other day, as I have been, here on my own blog, and I will continue to read my friend’s blogs. But do not think that reduced commenting means reduced interest or reduced lurve for all y’all.

I have an interview Wednesday for a job here in my little ‘burb, 30 hours a week, for a family service organization. It’s a front desk job, so it won’t pay as much as I’m used to, but then again, it’ll pay a lot more than I’m used to lately, and because evenings are required I’ll be able to go to school in the morning.

Ever since we moved here, I have had a “goal” of going back to school when we get our debt paid off. I have revised that. I am going to school full time in Fall 2005. We’ll just have to make lifestyle adjustments to accomodate that. This gives us a year to start on them.

Joe, your “setting goals too low” comment really made me think. I know this may not seem like much, but jumping into pre-calculus when I haven’t taken a math class in over 25 years was aiming high for me. After sitting through the class today, though, I am filled with confidence. I remember this stuff! I can do this!

I got a laugh out of my age in class today. The instructor asked us to introduce ourselves and explain how we feel about math. I said, “I used to love math, and was pretty good at it when I last took it, over 25 years ago.” (class laughs) “I took pre-calculus in high school, in 1978. How many of y’all had been born then?” (class laughs, no hands). “Yeah, that’s what I thought.”

Do singing cowgirls need to know calculus?