Day zero

Since everything in computers starts with 0 (not 1) today is day zero of summer. I had my first three-hour class this morning and it was drab. Sitting in class for three hours listening to a lecture on essentially math and logic is not exciting stuff (even with the two 10 minute breaks). Remember I get to do this twice per week for 7 weeks too. The only saving grace is that since I am remote and the only student at my location no one sees or hears me in the class (if a press the microphone button I ca speak, but otherwise I'm quiet as a mouse). I could basically sleep, eat and make paper airplanes without anyone being the wiser. I won’t be doing those things probably (well, I might eat) but it’s a little less pressure to pay attention 100% of the time for three hours. I can freely get up and move about to stretch the old muscles. We’ll see how much I like being the only student locally once we get into the meat of the material – a study partner wouldn’t be bad.

I’ve also started what they call 4 ½ work weeks for the summer months. They allow us to work nine hour days on Mon-Thurs and a half day on Fri. Fri afternoons may become my homework time, unfortunately, but that’s the price you pay for nine hours of in-class instructions per week. July can’t get here fast enough.

Hopefully I’ll hear soon on whether I’ve been selected for the Chancellor’s Fellowship program. Additionally, we should hear some time in June whether Chloe is accepted into the public pre-school program. We are really hoping she is admitted. It would be great for her to get some daily interaction with other kids her age as practice before going to kindergarten. Salvacion and I have talked about how we would fund her going to a private pre-school next year if she doesn’t get in the public one. So many things are up in the air right now. We’ll just have to wait and see.