No Rest for the Wicked...

...And I guess I must certainly be wicked, since lately I don't seem to be getting any rest at all. January 13th I had my first day back to school in years.  Quite literally, it has been years.  I'm taking advantage of my company's tuition reimbursement program to finish the degree I started a really long time ago.  Long enough ago, to my dismay, to discover that all of my credits earned in a previous lifetime are no longer transferable.  I guess if you look at it on the bright side, it's like starting over again.  And so that's what I'm doing.  I attend classes two nights per week, besides my full-time job and of course my other full-time job as mom.  That leaves about zero time for a lot of the other things I'd love to be doing.  Whatever.  I get out of bed around 5:30am and go to bed around 11:30pm, and never really get a chance to just blog much anymore.  I miss it. 

I've always been a writer.  As soon as I was capable of forming a sentence, I found my mother's clunky old 1910 typewriter fascinating.  I would spend hours at that black beast of a machine, clacking out stories that made no sense at all.  Most never had endings.  Some were merely a few short paragraphs of thought that I put on paper just because I could.  I find I still tend to write in the same way, which is why blogging suits me.  I have no time for it, but yet I will still insist on posting now and then - even if it's just short rants.

The cool thing that I've discovered is I can use my elective credits to go after another degree besides business, so I will end up with an AA in English with a Focus on Creative Writing, in addition to my business degree.  Even if I have to pay for those electives out of my own pocket I will.  I forgot how much I enjoyed school, so I am really glad I went back.  Of course one of my English classes require I write several essays, so I will be posting them to my writing blog, Original Fiction, in case anyone is interested.  Often times I write because I need an outlet to all that's going on in my head, and writing by academic standards will be a good thing to help me get more focused on how I write, vs. what I write.

Who knows, maybe this school thing will improve my blog writing :)