Back in School
Posted in Mom Life, Random Nonsense on 09/18/2007 08:23 pm by toriOk, I really don’t remember reading textbooks being this hard. But now, I can think of a million other things I should be doing other than reading sociological theories about deviant behavior. Not that said topic isn’t interesting, it’s just looking at the floor - which needs a vacuum, or knowing that there are clothes that need to be folded - being a mom seems to have sucked some of the student out of me. I’m taking it as a sign that I need to shift my thinking a bit, I need to try to be mom, then writer, then student - but damn, that’s a lot of mes. I hope it will get easier, well, I know it will… but I get scared. College looms like this giant unfinishable task, and I’ve been spending the last 10 years chipping away at it and I’m still not complete.
Right now I’m working on so much, working on ME… I hope that school falls into this pattern as well.
09/19/2007 at 12:30 pm
Ah, Deviant Behavior. I took that class at Cape Fear Community College in Wilmington NC from the freakiest man. He was some sort of preacher fellow with actual booklearning that qualified him to teach the course, but honestly, I think it was his family that got him the gig. You see, it was his constant use of his examples from his own family that seemed to illustrate his lectures more often than not. I shall never quite recover from the ick factor that he evoked with his story about his brother known for practicine bestiality. I took that class about 20 years ago, but I still can hear that man’s voice and see his pointed little face and the poorly suppressed glee as he taught us about social deviance.
Ew.