Maybe you know, maybe you don’t, that I’m going back to school. I started my “freshman orientation” today, and I’m pretty excited. I like goals and challenges and pushing onward at a ridiculous pace because I just don’t know how not to work, how to be still. There’s someone to thank for unwittingly nudging me back into school—they know who they are, but thanks thanks thanks all the same for being an inspiration.
I have a couple 2 year degrees, and smushed up with my previous college experience drinking beer and dropping acid in the woods, I have nearly 7 years of college completed…but no 4 year degree. So I’m chasing a Bachelor of Science degree in Information Technology for no other real reason other than self-satisfaction. Sure, there are some jobs that will open up to me with the B.S. credential that I can’t even apply for now, but for me, it’s more out of personal necessity. I will go after this degree because I can, because I want to, because there are 24 hours in a day.
I think I’m a lot like my border collie as I seize the day and have to have a purpose and things to do, new challenges. JulieBeans, the border collie, will jump the fence and run up and down the street if she gets bored. According to the What Kind of Dog Are You Quiz, I am a border collie: They are perfectionists with a permanent will to please, thriving on praise but not without sensitivity. Too intelligent to lay around the house all day, they become neurotic if left alone for long periods. If I get bored, well, I jump the fence and end up buying new cars and that’s not a good plan right now (apparently, I must also be kept away from motorcycle dealerships when I’m bored as that V-Rod was looking pretty freakin’ hot to me).
So! During the work on my last degree in cyber crime, I sort of disappeared to a lot of people. I had to turn down a lot of invitations and hunker down with the books…and it may be much the same this go ’round. It’s nothing personal, but as a compulsive overachiever channeling her inner border collie, I’ve gotta do it right or I can’t do it at all. Just lettin’ ya know…and thanks for your support!