Spinning My Wheels
Lets start with the obvious stuff that's hanging over my head right now.
First, I'm back in school, taking Intro to Computers (its required) and Composition 2 (which I flunked last time). Intro is easy so far, but now we have gotten into Microsoft Access. Basically it's like Excel, but a bit more focused on creating order forms and databases. I'm sure to have more fun with that. Like the class isn't fun enough. Sure, there are some fresh faced kids who got out of high school there, but there are also some much older students in that class as well. Sometimes a few of them get lost. Every once in a while a voice pipes up that they missed a step and they want our professor to go back and show how it was done. Now I find myself raising my hand and asking how it was done now that we have gone into Access.
Comp II has been going a lot better now that I'm actually writing up papers when they are due. Now I'm at the part of the class where I have to write a three or more page paper on any topic I choose. I decided to go with what cannabis can do to you. For those of you who have no idea what cannabis is, let me spell it out for you. M. A. R. I. J. U. A. N. A. Yep, since I seem to have friends coming out and saying that they smoke the stuff, I figured that I would make it my assignment so that I could hold up charts and point at them, saying, "Look! This is bad for you!" But that's the problem. The only things I've been able to come up with against Marry Jane is that its difficult to distinguish colors when under the influence, you can't remember new complex tasks, and you can't concentrate as well. There's even some argument that THC, the main chemical in weed, isn't even harmful to the brian, saying that there are certain parts of the brain that are designed to take in THC. However, some other scientists counter that that part of the brain is probably like an entranced magpie picking up something shiny: it takes in THC because it's there. Nevertheless, the debate rages on, and I'm trying to make sense of it all. Go me.
And as far as actually going and fixing cars, that won't happen until next fall, when the new class starts up. I'm still a little bit unsure about how this is going to work out for me. I mean, what if I end up spending $12,000 (which is what it will cost over two years) and I find out that I don't like it, or I'm really bad at it?
Meanwhile the world continues to turn, though it may be a little to fast for me. Some of my friends have gotten married, some have moved out of state, and a couple are even moving out of the country! And what of me? I'm a failed Disney cast member who limped home to clean up cars for $8.50 an hour. God, there better be a plan in all of this...
First, I'm back in school, taking Intro to Computers (its required) and Composition 2 (which I flunked last time). Intro is easy so far, but now we have gotten into Microsoft Access. Basically it's like Excel, but a bit more focused on creating order forms and databases. I'm sure to have more fun with that. Like the class isn't fun enough. Sure, there are some fresh faced kids who got out of high school there, but there are also some much older students in that class as well. Sometimes a few of them get lost. Every once in a while a voice pipes up that they missed a step and they want our professor to go back and show how it was done. Now I find myself raising my hand and asking how it was done now that we have gone into Access.
Comp II has been going a lot better now that I'm actually writing up papers when they are due. Now I'm at the part of the class where I have to write a three or more page paper on any topic I choose. I decided to go with what cannabis can do to you. For those of you who have no idea what cannabis is, let me spell it out for you. M. A. R. I. J. U. A. N. A. Yep, since I seem to have friends coming out and saying that they smoke the stuff, I figured that I would make it my assignment so that I could hold up charts and point at them, saying, "Look! This is bad for you!" But that's the problem. The only things I've been able to come up with against Marry Jane is that its difficult to distinguish colors when under the influence, you can't remember new complex tasks, and you can't concentrate as well. There's even some argument that THC, the main chemical in weed, isn't even harmful to the brian, saying that there are certain parts of the brain that are designed to take in THC. However, some other scientists counter that that part of the brain is probably like an entranced magpie picking up something shiny: it takes in THC because it's there. Nevertheless, the debate rages on, and I'm trying to make sense of it all. Go me.
And as far as actually going and fixing cars, that won't happen until next fall, when the new class starts up. I'm still a little bit unsure about how this is going to work out for me. I mean, what if I end up spending $12,000 (which is what it will cost over two years) and I find out that I don't like it, or I'm really bad at it?
Meanwhile the world continues to turn, though it may be a little to fast for me. Some of my friends have gotten married, some have moved out of state, and a couple are even moving out of the country! And what of me? I'm a failed Disney cast member who limped home to clean up cars for $8.50 an hour. God, there better be a plan in all of this...