Wednesday, October 21, 2009

You missed me, didn't you?

I know, you haven't heard a peep from me in so long. The past few weeks have been rather busy for me and my brain, well it just ain't been it's usual productive self for quite some time. I managed to end up with a "B" in one of my classes and it shook me a bit. A "B" what the? Seriously, I did not "feel" any of this last quarter. To many emotional elements and out right craziness going on.

Gladly, things have settled down a bit and I have a lot more clarity on the direction of things to come. It's tough when you hit that life changing age (you know, mid life crisis) and the inner child wants to get out and frolic. No, I am not looking at buying a sports car or trying to recapture my youthful days. I rather like where I am at. Yes, I would like some things to change but I have to look at the realistic value of things.

One, I ain't getting any younger. Am I? I mean, I feel now like I should have felt when I was 30 somethin'. Coming out of a reclusive existence was not easy. A whole lot of things have changed and then, have they? Maybe I am expecting to much of myself and I should just sit at home and grow old. Needless to say, I am looking forward to making some more changes in the way I do things over the next few months.

So, this last quarter is the wrap-up of the classes I need for my concentration. After that, I have three more classes of my choosing. Always good to save a few electives for the end. Other than that, I surprised myself by adding a few community TV production classes to the mix. Most are one day, evening type seminars. I need them so I can do community TV for this business I am working with. Yeah, it has a lot to do with some of the work I am doing with Hip Hop Wall Street. I also plan to be adding some kids programming to it with some puppet shows.

I started reading a Nora Roberts novel a couple weeks ago. I had never contemplated reading a romance novel but I do remember reading a couple Jacqueline Susann novels when I was much younger. Like, how many of you have read Valley of the Dolls before age 13. Or, have read any Xaviera Hollander or the Last Tango in Paris? Yeah, that's why. Any hoodle, I almost forgot how much I like the way a story is told in book form. You get to envision the story in your mind and you almost get carried away into the writers world. Not a bad place to be sometimes. I needed to get my head out of the technical stuff. It works fine for the job but doesn't do anything for the reality of life.

I had some other things that were on my mind but they are not that important or they just don't matter any more. I can take things a lot better than when I was a lot younger. So, I'm rambling on about this and that with no coherent point to my reasoning. One day, all this will make sense. What I'm doing now. What I did. What I will be doing. It all has purpose. Part of my sinister plot to get...Heh! I'm not gonna give that away. Not yet!!! Y'all be sweet for now. I'll holla back at you later.

9 comments:

The Dish said...

Nothing pleases me more than escaping into a book. Nice to see you!

kenju said...

Getting lost in a book of fiction is one of the more pleasant aspects of life!

Warped Mind of Ron said...

Just got a book myself. Oh... are you doing an evil puppet show??? I would so love to see a good evil puppet show. :-)

tiff said...

I've waited a long time to do an evil puppet show.....

Libby said...

shiny, i have more books than anyone i know! & i always have one open in all three rooms i spend any time in!!

Christine said...

Can't do romance. All seems so sappy and predictable. Girl meets guy, girl guy conflict, girl and guy get back together and every one lives happily ever after.

I would rather read reality like the men ends up bitter alone and drinking himself to death. But that's just me.

Libby said...

...or woman murders man...

Susan said...

You're worried about a B? Shiny, I had classes I had to look up on the campus map so I could show up to take my final! Well done on the grades, you.

LOVE the escape a well written novel provides. And shitty ones can do the job sometimes as well.

Happy weekend!

themom said...

Wow, you mentioned Xaviera Hollander...haven't heard that name in eons.