My weekends
Over the next couple of months I'd like to recover my go-go.
So, this spring I signed up for two classes: XHTML/CSS from ACC, and a beginning running class. Self-improvement, continued professional development, physical training. I was going to feel very accomplished in May.
I quickly grew fed up with the XHTML/CSS class. It was through the Tech Writing track, and the instructor (whom I am fairly sure knew little more than I), was lame. He talked as if this were the most difficult stuff in the world and oh, we'd get through it (puhleeze). The class was also clearly a distant priority to whatever was going on in the rest of his life. Further, if I'm going to be convinced that paid distance learning is any more use than picking up a book and learning it myself, I'm going to have to see a better effort than that. Little more than a short amount of explanation and then an assignment to complete and FTP to his site. And, um, he suggested more than once just copying everything from his sample site. Seriously. Newsflash dude: you don't learn how to code that way. Oh, and YOUR code had validation errors, btw.
I have better things to do on the weekend than please a martinet who insists on character-perfect pages of meaningless copy but tells me it's OK to copy it.
Running class started in March and was good for two weeks. But running class requires me to be at the running trail at 7 a.m. on Saturday. So one day I overslept. Then there was the Friday of crazyness that resulted in me being awake until 4 a.m. (about which more some other time). Then I started having issues with my calves. But still, I've been running during the week, and
sttimothy has been running with me, and I'm really enjoying that. This Saturday I finally realized, though, that more than anything else, I do not want to get up and be somewhere at 7 a.m. on Saturday morning. I have running in me, astonishingly, but simply don't have a Saturday class in me right now. Work has burned me out and I want nothing more than to sleep, hang out, and putter around the house. The benefits of the class would be numerous, but I just can't.
I would like to hang out with some friends though, and that I will make happen. I miss the far away friends, too!