I finally broke down and made an appointment with a neurologist. Bah. I am not happy about adding one more freaking specialist to my list, but I cannot TAKE these freaking headaches. So. May 30th. Whoo-fucking-hoo.
In other news, I received an e-mail from the professor of the class I’m taking in a few weeks and after reading it have decided that I am certifiably INSANE for thinking “Hey! I know! I’ll take a few classes online!”
HA! This e-mail was full of expectations and whosits and whatsits that I should know, having had the prerequisite courses. Yes, well. I took those prerequisites in 1992, people, back before the INTERNETS, etc. They did not cover the Ohio Link database and how to use it and the MLA whatevers (although, having looked up MLA, I do seem to remember that….vaguely).
Anyway. I’m going to give it the old college try (ha!). This is “Intro to Fiction” - which sounded “fun” to me in my deluded state. The books she cites in the email, however, don’t sound so much like fun. We are to read Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe “as a class,” will read some things from a textbook that I had to pay $66 for (used, no less) and she gave a list of books to choose from for our final paper. Among them was House of the Spirits, by Isabel Allende. Now, I saw the movie a long time ago and even have the book already (a plus!) because it’s been on my list of “I should really read that someday” books. So, guess which book I will be doing a paper on? Yeah, that one.
That class starts May 19th and runs all summer and I’m also taking a creative writing class which starts mid June. Gawd help me. These are online classes, so let’s hope I catch on quickly. I also registered for 3 (eek!) classes for the fall semester and am hoping like hell financial aid comes through generously. If any of you have any advice and/or sites for me in that regards, please let me know. I’m having a hell of a time with finding the money. I thought, being on disability, maybe there’d be money to be had but if there is, I can’t find it.
Those 3 fall classes, if you’re interested, are Literature by Women, Western Civ and Survey of Art. I wanted Child Psych but it’s telling me that I don’t have the proper pre-req. I took Intro to Psych back in the day, but I’m guessing it’s changed and I’m going to have to take it again, which doesn’t thrill me.
And so. Between this stuff, trying to figure out financial aid for the kids and the busy-ness that is May around here, I am overwhelmed and short-tempered. CJ has his last final tomorrow and will then be home for the summer. He hasn’t even begun to deal with financial aid because he just doesn’t think about it. Cailey did all his stuff for him last year and so I have no idea what to do. She will be home late next week and herself is elbow deep in financial aid crapola. See, she’s studying in Paris this summer and so she’s trying to get the money together for that. Oy. The headaches.
We are also into the final weeks of Melody’s school year, which means “graduation” programs and picnics and trying to figure out what to get her involved in this summer which will keep her accustomed to being around a lot of other kids while not breaking the bank. Library groups rule, of course, but I’m also looking into adapted swimming lessons (in which I go with her — don’t even get me started on the fresh hell that buying myself a bathing suit will be).
Have I bitched enough? I’ll stop. How are you?
