Just how long will it take??
In the immortal words of my lil' brother... "that will take a l-o-n-g time!"
This was his response as a little boy when told he must clean his room before he was allowed to enjoy some outdoor activity.
It's been an oft quoted phrase in my family ever since that time. If any of us kids were facing a challenge and weren't making much movement towards the effort- our parents (or one of us) would recite it.
Well- after this week- I'm saying it to myself!
This week was the first week of the Summer II semester. And, just what does that have to do with UFO's? Well.. I may have bitten off more than I can chew and I just hope I don't live to regret it!
Let me explain. In an effort to tidy up- I began to make lists of things that were uncompleted. Craft and house projects mainly comprised the list. Can you believe it? I've got nearly 40 year old uncompleted textile projects that haven't been devoured by moths! There were a couple of items not exactly relating to those subjects that kept popping into my head and I couldn't put them under those categories. So... another list began. My official "Un-Finsihed Objects" or UFO list is wide-ranging and has some other really old items.
One of those UFOs is education. I started college right after graduating high school and like so many other young people- didn't really have a clear goal of what I meant to do with that degree. Perhaps, it was because actually BECOMING an interior designer or architect seemed so unrealistic that the part of figuring out how to "get there" never even got to the drawing-board stage. To be honest, I really think all I for sure knew I wanted to do was be a wife and a mother, which seemed much more likely- so I didn't put much into pursuing the pipe-dreams and it never got finished. That's not to say that I didn't accomplish something; I am a wife and a mother- not to any acclaim- but that's a whole 'nother anguish and part of an entirely different list.
Back to the topic- in 1980 I declared business as my major (because secretarial science was being phased out by that time) but most of the classes I took were preparing me for an office-related vocation. From the looks of the transcript, I'm ill-suited for that area. Though I'd like to think that I've got a head for the classic term of "pencil-pushing"- (I can type like the wind and organize!) I'm not really good at doing anything more than filling in the blanks on forms and filing alphabetically. And, to be honest- I don't enjoy it.
From my more mature perspective and having lived a little- I knew all the above without even looking at the lists, transcript or seeing the scores from the asset tests; but this time I'm able to acknowledge it and act upon it. And, have a much better idea of how to set a goal, form a plan (with backup alternatives) and the chutzpah to get there.
I am much more inclined for the abstracts like art or writing and this time I'll pursue pushing a different type of pencil. I declared a double major of English and Art. It's bold. It may be that I have to minor in one. If I can finish in three years- it will have taken me 30 years start to finish. GOSH! At least I've something to work towards and taking off the UFO list!
And, yes, dear brother-- it WILL take a VERY L-O-N-G time!
Sal- signing off.... who had best be finishing writing her speech rather than filling up idle words in cyberspace!
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