Education (?)

I am reliving nightmares from many past years--the ones where you are back in a classroom and forgot all about the test or the homework or your locker combination. Sheer terror until you wake up and remember it all ended long ago. Except this time I have plugged my brain in like the people in The Matrix; I am taking two online courses on chemical dependency. No human contact, only disembodied words on the screen. It's interesting though that one can tell a few things about the personalities of instructors and fellow students almost right away by reading their discussion postings. One instructor is a hardcore authoritarian--who else would structure an essay question on an exam so that "only CORRECT answers to essay questions will receive points." I am realizing at least one thing about myself--that part of both my long-past successes AND dropping out of academia was based on my extreme dislike of being told to learn things in a certain way. If I were back in college for real I would instantly drop a class where the essays had a "correct" answer; now I guess I will persevere and see what happens.

Anyway, all that is boring unless you are me. I will be taking a break from this blog for a few weeks while I get my time re-arranged to accomodate the study schedule that I have promised myself not to rail at. My early morning writing and thinking time will be taken over by the mental organization of the instructors of these classes and I will do better by not thinking too creatively for a while. But . . .gotta do it if I'm gonna do it! I'll post things occasionally if my brain just can't stand the pressure inside, otherwise, see you later in the summer!