1 post tagged “tangents”

I've been drifting since the day of my last final.  This past semester was very heavy for me, with 16 hours.  I carried five courses thinking that two of them would be 'crip' courses, but much to my chagrin, one definitely was not.  I was talking to TC the other day (when I got my wild on, at the poetry reading and Literary Society meeting) and mentioned that I had expected two of the courses to be 'crip' courses and he said he wasn't familiar with that term.  I was shocked.  What did you call them when you were in school, TC?  According to Urban Dictionary, a crip course is a course you take because it's easy.  A word of warning, that link will take you to the exact definition at Urban Dictionary.  If you've never been to Urban Dictionary before, before you start looking around, be aware that some of the definitions are... decidedly... raw.  It's a very interesting site, nonetheless.  So, you've been warned. 

So, back to my tale of crip courses that weren't.  The two I expected to be fairly easy were Keyboarding (which of course, was) and Oral Communications, which required more work sometimes than my 4 credit hour course.   I have to say, that sucked.  I always try to pad my course load so that I'm getting the courses I need but also so I won't have any super hard *or* super easy semesters.  I certainly don't want to be bored.  Well, this semester turned out to be difficult to balance with the kids and M and the house and my volunteer work.  Forget having any friends.  I haven't talked to ML since before Christmas, and I haven't talked to S since early February.  I've only had sporadic contact with Girlie, even.  Needless to say, I did a poor job of balancing my priorities this semester, and I have to clean up behind myself because of it.  However, I'm proud of my marks, if nothing else.

I keep getting off track.  I've been drifting since the end of classes.  I don't know what to do with myself.  I've made a book list, and started on it.  I started reading Fear of Flying first, but I'm finding it very uninteresting, apart from a juicy quote I wrote down and will probably (maybe) share with TC (if I can get him to share an observation about people).  I may abandon it for Spite Fences or Blood Meridian or Modern Baptists.  I actually have another book to read, called Kushiel's Chosen.  It's part of a series, and full of sexual tension and situations, so a good, light read.  Maybe I will read that one first to kind of decompress the folds of my mind.  I've also made a list of things that need doing in the house and need to get busy on that if we're ever going to move.  And I've really missed being in the kitchen baking and cooking so I want to do a lot of that.  I found a delicious (looking) recipe for 'grip and rip' cheese bread that I really want to try making.  I bet it would be scrumptious with a good red wine.  And that's another thing, I would love a glass of good wine.  *sigh* 

Obviously, tonight is a night for tangents.  My bed is calling.