I think that this new journey might be worth documenting. I'm about to embark on it and I'm not sure I'll ever get to the end. If I do, I will be Dr. Suzie Campbell. The name isn't the reason I'm doing it, but it's perhaps the biggest sign that something about me is different. I hope to be different at the end. I can't say exactly how. Smarter? Better at teaching? Not sure.
I start in a week and a half. I've ordered my books and they are arriving in the mail. I open them up and flip through them and they are full of words that I don't know. Today one came and it had a chapter on Boolean logic. Boolean? What kind of word is that? I get intimidated and I close them and put them on my desk. They are all lined up and I try not to glance at them as I walk into the kitchen. Better to put it off as long as possible.
I got a birthday present for Shane and it came in the mail today. It's a motivational poster. He likes to post motivational crap on social media. It's a picture of a goldfish swimming in a fishbowl, staring out at a mountain lake. It has the word DISCOURAGEMENT printed in big letters and then under it in little letters it reads "Because nothing is stopping you from your goals except a total lack of talent and a complete failure of will." I think it's hilarious. When it came in the mail, the company - they call themselves Despair Inc - sent me an extra poster for free. It has a picture of a kayaker going off a waterfall with the words BELIEVE IN YOURSELF and then under it "Because the rest of us think you're an idiot."
I am hoping that these posters do not embody this new journey.
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