{"id":1472,"date":"2009-09-02T15:20:43","date_gmt":"2009-09-02T22:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valianthosting.ca\/clients\/daemon\/?p=1472"},"modified":"2009-09-02T15:20:43","modified_gmt":"2009-09-02T22:20:43","slug":"doubting-my-sanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/?p=1472","title":{"rendered":"Doubting my sanity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I must be crazy.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve registered for three classes this semester. Obviously I&#8217;ve learned nothing from my experience last semester and am doomed to repeat the experience. Panic. Stress. Too many papers. Not enough me time.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still deluded enough to think that school is the perfect way to spend my time while Drew&#8217;s away (And back. Then away again).\u00a0What better way to fill up my time than to work through a bunch of 4th year classes like a maniac? Since I no longer need to complete a degree in order to convince the powers that be that I have a clue what I&#8217;m doing in the workplace, I need to tell myself\u00a0something to motivate me through &#8217;til completion.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If that weren&#8217;t enough, I&#8217;ve signed myself up for two\u00a0back-to-back weekend classes at the college I used to work at. Bye-bye Friday, Saturday and Sunday. I might as well get used to\u00a0the loss immediately so I don&#8217;t feel like it&#8217;s snuck up on me while I wasn&#8217;t paying attention this semester.<\/p>\n<p>Why did I think I could manage this? Well, for starters the weekend classes are running over the first two weekends of my university courses. I figure that&#8217;s the only time that my work load will be low enough for me to give up an entire weekend. I won&#8217;t have any papers due and I&#8217;m delusional enough to think I&#8217;ll get my reading and weekly assignments done during the work week.<\/p>\n<p>Secondly, for the first time in years I don&#8217;t work in a job where I have to work crazy OT hours in order to pull-off a project committment at the last minute. No more<em> mad dash heroics<\/em> that, in reality, benefits my employer greatly and me\u00a0least of all.<\/p>\n<p>And, of course, it wouldn&#8217;t hurt for me to get a better understanding of some of the software I use now.\u00a0At the moment I\u00a0stumble my way through editing existing Flash files. What I&#8217;d really\u00a0like to be able to do is develop\u00a0basic interactions on my own\u00a0without having to spend hours digging through help files and watching tutorials. Since I just spent a minor fortune and gifted myself with a (student) copy of Adobe&#8217;s eLearning Suite I better get off my tush and start taking classes to ensure I can do more than just flounder around in Flash and Photoshop. If all goes well, I&#8217;ll take a class in Illustrator through work next month\u00a0as well.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Just call me crazy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I must be crazy. I&#8217;ve registered for three classes this semester. Obviously I&#8217;ve learned nothing from my experience last semester and am doomed to repeat the experience. Panic. Stress. Too many papers. Not enough me time. I&#8217;m still deluded enough to think that school is the perfect way to spend my time while Drew&#8217;s away [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-its-a-living","category-learning-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1472"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1482,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1472\/revisions\/1482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}