First Week of Classes and Writing Things

So, the Fall semester has started. I have a feeling this post is going to turn into a giant rant about college and why I think some of these classes are ridiculous and unnecessary. It's been a bit jumbled and disorganized on my part, mostly because my online classes switched from Blackboard to Canvas, and let me just say, Canvas is so confusing and difficult to use! On Blackboard all of the teachers had the due dates and assignments for the week in the same area of the app. I knew where to find everything and it was all super easy to use and operate. On Canvas however, each teacher with each class seems to be able to decide where they want to put links and class schedules and due dates and what assignments are due that week in whatever place they want. For me, that makes it difficult to figure out where my schedule is, what assignments are due when and just what is going on. One of the classes has the due dates on the calendar in the syllabus and another has it in the Modules and another has them all in a whole other section. It's kind of crazy.

I've been going in for a Liberal Arts associates degree, so I've been taking a lot of Creative Writing classes and literature classes and quite a few history/anthropological classes. This semester I was actually told that I can't take any more English/literature classes cuz I kind of... already took them all. And besides, for the next three semesters I'll be taking boring classes that are mandatory to get an associates. This semester I'm in Interpersonal Communications *cue eye roll*

Thank you Damon

and Art History which is actually pretty interesting. I was going to do Earth Science but I'm going to be completely honest and tell you that I do not like science in the least bit, not even Earth Science. It's all extremely difficult for me and I just can't wrap my head around the subject at all. But the amount of my work you're supposed to do in that class is just ridiculous! For each week we were expected to read 2 chapters a week, do a quiz per chapter and a unit test and a diagram and a lab. Maybe to some of that's normal and I just can't handle things as well as others, but to me it was just overwhelming to even think of doing that much work per week on top of two other classes. And wanting to have time to write and try and get a job at my church. I think my head would have exploded. So! I dropped the class and I'll be taking it another semester. But my point is, I'm a Liberal Arts major! I do very well in literature and history and creative writing classes. I do not so great in pretty much anything else. So, why is it that a Liberal Arts major has to take a science class and a math class and two language classes that I will never, ever use in my whole life? I plan to be a writer and/or do something that has to do with history... writing and history do not directly have anything to do with science or math or languages, at least not the kind that I do and am interested in.

Me whenever someone brings up the words math or science

Good for the people who are good at science and math and excel at learning multiple languages, truly those people stun me and amaze me and I find them extremely impressive that their brains can learn those things and understand them and excel at them and they enjoy those things. That's really amazing. But... I'm not that person. I don't enjoy science or math or learning new languages (I realized that during my summer Spanish class) and I'm not particularly good at any of them, so I really don't understand why students who are Liberal Art majors are forced to do classes that they struggle in and will never use. Plus, I've done Earth Science in high school and middle school. Why do I have to learn the same thing over and over again? As for math, I think I can get by in day to day life with the math that I know. I was actually talking to my grandma about all this and just so you know, when she was in school they didn't have calculators in their phones. At all. And so she was like, you just need to know basic math. I got by and survived without knowing trig. Plus we have calculators now. If you need to know anything or do anything just pull that out and use it. Which is so true.

Anyways! So I'm just getting my bearings and getting back into the routine of classes after four weeks of pretty much being able to do whatever and spend my time however I like. And I really hope that my blog posts stay consistent. I think I'm going to go back to Wednesday and Friday posts because I like deadlines and they make me actually write something or try to so, I think that'll help me keep up with this thing and make interesting posts that you guys will enjoy. Hopefully. I also hope that my writing doesn't slack too much. Silver is taking me a bit longer to write than Golden because sequels are hard and, for some reason, my sequels always end up more complex with a ridiculous plot that takes forever for me to figure out. In other words, I like to make things hard for myself when I write sequels. Project Khione is still a giant mess, but I've been doing a lot of thinking about it and gearing myself up to get ready to work on it. Working on Project Khione takes a lot of willpower and energy for me.

Project Khione got me like...

Don't get me wrong, I love Weapon Icean and I love Delphi and Riley and everyone I created in that world but... it's taken quite a few unexpected turns and I feel like I'm in a different stage of my writing than I was when I wrote Weapon Icean, which is making Project Khione difficult and a real struggle for me to figure out. I am really determined to get it out in December like Weapon Icean, it's just going to take a lot of brainpower to make it presentable and readable.

Plus, Of Magic and Mayhem is out and I'm trying to promote that and keep it going and all that and getting the paperback out and hopefully Nook version out too at some point this week and I started a short story that I really fell in love with and the story is sort of stretching out in front of me, wanting to be continued. It's very fantastical and whimsical and a breath of fresh air if that makes sense, sort of my ode to Autumn, my favorite season and time of the year, so I'm trying to figure out what I want to do with that.

Yeah... classes couldn't have started at a busier time. I'm not physically busy in my life, but my head and brain is busy, which is almost always a good thing, but also sort of makes me feel a bit overwhelmed. Also, I'm thinking about what to do next year when I do graduate. That's a bit far off, but close enough to be in the back of my mind tugging at my thoughts. Within the next few months, by the middle of next year I will be twenty

Me at the thought of being a "real" adult

and in a new season of my life and that kind of scares me, so for now, I'm just going to enjoy the time I'm in right now. The end of August, the beginning of Fall, Fall classes, two books out and having time to read and write throughout the week. Not to mention keep up on this book because I refuse to let it drop to the bottom of my priority list again.

So yeah, that's where I'm at right now. That's where my head is at and where my life is at and we'll just have to wait and see what happens next, where God chooses to lead me in the next few months.

I felt this was an appropriate gif to end on. Doing homework and dying are pretty much the same things

Have a great week everyone!!