The night before the last day.
Thursday, March 4th, 2010My class has gone really well this week. Very interesting. Understandable. Thought-provoking. And a lot more manageable than I expected. I don’t know what I expected. I guess I was comparing it to when I did my philosophy masters courses. I shouldn’t have compared. A five-course thesis-based masters is likely VERY different than a 20 to 30-course masters. Obviously the courses will not be quite as intense when you’re doing 20+.
There has been a lot to take in and a lot that I will look back over again and again.
What I have learned is that I am not as crazy as I thought I was.
What I have also learned is that I have a few “tendencies” (we’ll just call them “tendencies”) that I should likely deal with. I now have a very clear idea how irrational these fears are, and I don’t want to have them any more. Case closed, right? I’m not so sure. How do you get rid of things that you really feel even if your mind knows that they are irrational?
Yeah. We were talk about that this morning. The mind and the body and how they work together. We were also talking about Irritable Bowel Syndrome. And I brought oatmeal chocolate chip cookies for the class.
It was a good day.
But now I should sleep. Marc’s laying in bed next to me reading and I just finished rereading a paper that I’ve been working on and working on and working on (the one that I lost the pages for a few weeks back). And I realize that I just need to hand it in and let it go. It’s my first academic paper in 8 years and, while I think it is written well and is well thought out, I have no idea what the standards are here. But it is what it is and the mark I get will reflect that. And for now, I will pull my sleep mask over my eyes and sleep in peace until tomorrow.
It sounds very interesting. Were you serious about irritable bowel syndrome as part of the psychology class , do they think it is a psychologycal cause instead of physiological ?
I am glad things are going well, I had no doubt about that, keep up the good works .
I’ve missed you this week, Dixie, but know how busy it’s been for you - great to hear it’s gone well!! Keep up the good work!!
Thinking of you as you plow through. I have often wanted to take these classes but just new I didn’t have the head space for that type of learning at this time. I am proud of you
Maybe I should take your course.
I truly think I’m a little nuts so maybe that would help or when your done we could get together for a free counselling session ;), I’d buy cheesecake of course.
Grandpa and I voted, and we decided that the short course in any subject is always the pertinent one. Crazy is not something that is on a graduated scale. Crazy is what crazy is. Dixie, we decided that you are not crazy, or as we say in B.C, “You can take the girl out of Saskatchewan, but you can’t take Saskatchewan out of the girl.” In other words, Dixie is “probably” normal. Grandpa says, ” Where are my pages?”
Love Jessica and Grandpa! <3