back to homework
I started a Python (+ Ruby?) class last week and I'm sitting in a cafe doing my first week of "homework." It's probably 90 outside and like 50 inside - there's no winning in this climate-controlled world of extremes.
I am ridiculously excited to be learning useful things and becoming empowered. I am a weirdly competitive student and all we've done in the first week is install stuff but dudes, I want to win this class.
I spent last week volunteering at a cat shelter, eating out with friends, taking classes, and attempting to meet new people. I have to be careful to leave open slots for my gym classes! With the learning thing and the gym thing and the cat thing, though, I have a great load of activities that simulate busy-ness and friends in the absence of the real thing.
What excites me most about this programming class is the thought that it brings me closer to merging what I'm doing now with what I want to be doing in the future. I'm not at a forever job now, but I want to have the ability to leverage technology to build and participate in things that make a material impact. I don't want to keep looking around at other people and think I'm not doing something I'm passionate about ... which, for now, is entirely true.
I want to do interpreting work, I want to volunteer more, I want to dig into the community, I want to be something to someone.
I am ridiculously excited to be learning useful things and becoming empowered. I am a weirdly competitive student and all we've done in the first week is install stuff but dudes, I want to win this class.
I spent last week volunteering at a cat shelter, eating out with friends, taking classes, and attempting to meet new people. I have to be careful to leave open slots for my gym classes! With the learning thing and the gym thing and the cat thing, though, I have a great load of activities that simulate busy-ness and friends in the absence of the real thing.
What excites me most about this programming class is the thought that it brings me closer to merging what I'm doing now with what I want to be doing in the future. I'm not at a forever job now, but I want to have the ability to leverage technology to build and participate in things that make a material impact. I don't want to keep looking around at other people and think I'm not doing something I'm passionate about ... which, for now, is entirely true.
I want to do interpreting work, I want to volunteer more, I want to dig into the community, I want to be something to someone.