Comments on: Looking both ways Part III: Crash course

By: Anna

Anna — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 18:33:49 +0000

I’d love to go for a walk with you and discuss all the Life Classes we’ve taken and what we got out of them.

By: Amy

Amy — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:21:15 +0000

I always used to have that forgotten class dream, too! The other one I had a lot was having to go on stage in a play when I hadn’t learned any of the lines/blocking/music/choreography. Oh, it makes me cringe just thinking about it. Thankfully, I haven’t had one of those for a while.

My current courses:
Remedial Housekeeping: How to devise a plan of attack and stick to it. (I’ve just reenrolled-dropped it several times in the past. Two days in and going strong!)
Career Planning 101: How to not end up living under an overpass. (Taking this one with hubby. Couldn’t care less what grade we get, just so long as we pass!)

By: Kalli

Kalli — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 23:51:35 +0000

ah Geo I love you, what a great post

my class is currently called adjusting to motherhood and the reinvention of SELF 101 (intermediate, though I’m finding it rather challenging…)

By: Dalene

Dalene — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 22:22:36 +0000

Geo–I have that exact dream. And it’s always some lovely lit class and I somehow missed reading an entire syllabus worth of extremely long novels that I will be tested on or for which a research paper is due that very day and I wonder how I could have gone an entire semester w/o having known.

By: wendy

wendy — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 21:50:56 +0000

Geo, I’m with you on phone skills. And thanks for the friend comment. I did not mean to be self-degrading. Sometimes I think I’m a good friend and other times I think I haven’t a clue. Normal, I know. There are a few dynamics going on in my life right now that have me puzzled and feeling less strong in the friendship department. I should’ve focused on the positive a bit more! I always did like being a TA.

I love dream analysis, and yours sounds plenty intriguing! (disclaimer, I’m not trained or even well versed in dream analysis, but it’s still fascinating to me)

By: Geo

Geo — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 21:21:08 +0000

Stephen M—Tell me something. Do you ever have dreams about that kind of situation? For years I have had many variations on a theme going in my dreams—always something to do with a shocking realization near the end of a term or, worse, on exam day that I am signed up for a class I didn’t know about and (of course) haven’t studied at all. I’m always thrown into a big panic when it comes time to take the test. I guess that has its waking counterpart!

jendoop—I’ve been hunting for a book like that too, for so long!

By: jendoop

jendoop — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 20:27:55 +0000

Currently I’m enrolled in anatomy 999 – AKA you don’t know squat about your mortal tabernacle. It might be more enlightening if someone would give me a syllabus, textbook or something.
Great posts, thank you

By: dalene

dalene — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 20:01:37 +0000

Stephen–your comment is both funny and apt. In my case it would be because in addition to not realizing what class I was in I was sitting in the back row and trying really hard not to check out by falling asleep.

By: Stephen M (Ethesis)

Stephen M (Ethesis) — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:49:35 +0000

You have hit life’s lessons well in this post. I wonder how much I missed learning because I did not realize what class I was in.

By: Geo

Geo — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:47:25 +0000

Dalene—As long as I’ve got feet I’ll be happy to hike with you! Looking forward to your thoughts . . . .

wendy—Is there still room in “Be Still and Know”? That sounds like one I could use. That and “Remedial Phone Skills.”

You must be a T.A. for Friendship 101. I find it hard to believe that you’re on a beginner’s level; I find you pretty advanced already.