Tomorrow night I start pre-calculus I at Seattle Central. When was the last time I took a college class? The failed attempt at business classes at University of Maine at Augusta over the television at the Ellsworth extension I bet. When I took the Compass test at SCCC, it placed me into Pre-calc II. That didn’t make any sense at all, having dropped out of Algebra II two or three times in my life. Not that class specifically, but whatever school I happened to be going to at the time. The first time was recognizing that high school and the paths it lead to simply weren’t making me happy, or going to. Then at UMA, where else? I’m pretty sure Physics was the only class I took at EMTC (before it was EMCC) in preparation for the Computer Networking program that I bailed on when I saw the syllabus and realized the last quarter of the last year would touch on what I was learning myself that summer.<\/p>\n
But back to school I go all the same; for some math and computer science in the hopes that if I do see something that looks like it might be more interesting that the conversations I have with my colleagues and the resulting projects, I won’t have to worry about prerequisites. <\/p>\n
And so I’ve been working through an Algebra book, recalling work I did a decade ago. Time allowing, I’ve got another Algebra book to work through after to fill in whatever holes were formed when I wasn’t paying attention because life suddenly seemed so much more important than school. Along with some Pre-calc. We’ll see.<\/p>\n
I do most of my work at the dining room table, listening to some music. There’s the least distraction here, than downstairs or my room. I went to my room to get my laptop, because looking at the photographs I have in this room… made me need to shape some feelings into letters.<\/p>\n
Most of the pictures I have in this room are of adventures. Most were ones I was on: motorcycling on the olympic peninsula, weekend trip to SF, Big Bend in Texas, the cascades, Yellowstone, the arboretum, the puget sound. Plus a couple of my parents, building the camp at Lunkasoos, reminding me of two people I never met until years later when they were different people.<\/p>\n
A huge part of me is suddenly, and surprisingly, ready to leave Seattle. I’m juggling far too much to do it at the moment. Lawyers, debts, projects, all need finishing up. Where to? Out there! Life! Adventure<\/a>!<\/p>\n An unusual or exciting experience<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Because<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tomorrow night I start pre-calculus I at Seattle Central. When was the last time I took a college class? The failed attempt at business classes at University of Maine at Augusta over the television at the Ellsworth extension I bet. When I took the Compass test at SCCC, it placed me into Pre-calc II. That […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":278,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277\/revisions\/278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}