I’m going back to college for a quarter, taking among other things, a women’s studies course and intro to human sexuality. It’s 15 hours in all and, since its my first trip back to college in 22 years, it may take a day or two to adjust. :-) (Thank goodness I decided not to add calculus as well!)

Anyway, while I don’t think my overall posting rate will decline much there is going to be a bit of a dip. Ok, ok, so mostly I did the wrong 30 pages of reading last night and had to read the right 30 pages this morning. That technically puts me ahead of the curve for this afternoon but I’m grumpy about it.

Ok, ok, I’m also grumpy because even though I mostly worked on (cough) the internet for 20 of the last 22 years since graduation I, um, had a hard time figuring out the on-line interface to the class assignment areas. Why can’t kids these days just feel lucky being able to type their papers a line at a time on teletype terminals and print them on industrial-sized paper-feed printers? And not have to be able to read a yew-are-ell correctly. :-)

I’m totally psyched about my professors, though, and so far the other students seem perfect. I’m really looking forward to formalizing the stuff I’ve been picking up haphazardly all these years. I’m not going to blog specifically about school, and obviously not at all about real people in my classes. But just getting my brain stirred like this is bound to shake new stuff loose. (Example: noticing oddly off-base gender assumptions in reading that, a decade or so ago, was consciously very progressive. The content makes hitting bumps worth it but it really shows how fast things are moving.)

[Note: I’m also a week behind in responding to comments. And that’s now only a week. I’ll feel better about posting new stuff when I’m caught up with comments. I appreciate them all. Especially the nice distillation Sugar Mag, Holly, and P. Burke have been coming up with in comments on the last couple of posts. —fl]