
It involves Mr Renn picking up lots of loose ends for me, and other loose ends just being allowed to pile up on the floor. Bummer, I guess. But not unexpected. You can't keep cramming your life full of good stuff without giving up other good stuff. So my house will not be as clean as I'd like. I will not be making things that I can buy instead, and I will be saying no to a lot of things that are just more than I can fit in my life right now. I'm not failing at being reasonably nice to myself about all of it. I am only a human being, and I am trying really hard. It is enough right now.
I actually really love my classes. Meaning, I love attending class. It feels as much like going back home again as I hoped it would. I was so homesick for so long. I get emotional if I think about that for too long. The crazy piles of reading I love a little bit less. The content is fine and fascinating, but the pace is brutal.
Most days I have to be pretty disciplined to plow through my allotted load. The alignment of naps and school sometimes gives me 2 hours of uninterrupted productive time (if I can manage to use it well), but a lot of this effort looks like me stealing minutes and hours wherever I can find them, and staying up too late too often.
My weekly papers for each of my classes are being posted on a new site: Mom's Media Manual. I don't know how long it will take for the content there to amass to something representative of my whole course of study, but for those wondering what in the world I am doing, it's a glimpse.
Now, back to work!
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