Okay, so I know I haven't written much in awhile but you have to give me some credit. Let me break down the whole last week for you.
Monday, August 22nd: I was all signed up for classes at the local college because, you know, I still need to get my full education- and of course we all know that education is the most important...blah blah blah. Anyway, Monday was a fantastic day for me. Classes went very well (if you can define 3 hours of economics as "well"- then yeah). Altogether I have to say it was a good day even if I did get home at 10pm. Not that I have a bedtime or anything (I am an adult). So, neener neener!
Tuesday: I would have to say that this day was even better than Monday! Only one class and it ended early. So, good!
Wednesday: Ahhh. Now here is where my whole week just fell apart. For the first half of the day, everything was fine, but at 5pm when I was sitting down for my final (5 hour) class... I come to find out that I am sitting in a Film Photography class! (and for those of you who don't know; I am digital all the way. I mean maybe one day I will go out into the world and learn all I can about film, but lets just take this one day at a time shall we?)
Anyway, FILM?!?! Why on earth would I sign up for a class that I know nothing about? And get this: it was an Intermediate film class! Well the instructor looks down the list of names and lands on mine. She turns to me and asks, "Jordan right? Well, where did you take the beginning course?" And I, not wanting to embarrass myself in front of a bunch of people who would probably snicker at the thought of me signing up for a film course instead of a digital course, lied. Now don't get all huffy, it's not like it was a big lie, and I dropped the class as soon as I got out of there! Anyway, I told her that I went through it in my previous college. I hadn't, but all she said was, "hmm...okay then."
Can you believe that it's that easy to get into the courses here at the local college? I mean they don't even check if you are qualified...whew I would have bitten off a little more than I could chew if I had stayed there.
After all that happened, I realized that I was missing something very important......PHOTOGRAPHY! Most of you who are students will know how hard it is to get into a class normally, but when the semester has already started and every class has been filled, what can you do? Well I found the only way I could possibly get into the correct class this semester: beg. I jumped onto my dying laptop and raced through every page and search engine I could to find the email addresses for any of the photography instructors on the campus (which by the way, really wasn't easy). Finally, after half an hour of compiling my resources and digging through everything I could possibly dig- I found two names. With everything I could muster I wrote an email begging and pleading to be let in. I explained all the reasons I could think of for them to allow me into any class that was open (I mean this email would make you cry). I said I would buy the book at full price, stand in the back of the room, and wait until someone dropped so that I could claim a seat. I know I sounded pathetic but when you need something as bad as I did...well, you sound like me.
I was on edge waiting for an email back, a whisper of hope, anything...I was refreshing my email every other minute just to see if it was there. And finally it came. An instructor who works for the college campus but teaches further away told me that if I was willing to drive out to where he was, he would accept me! WILLING?!?!?!? Hell yes! I agreed and was allowed into the class...
So, finally everything is back to normal in life and I hope to get right back into blogging; since I know my two followers are dying for something to read.
My next article will start where my last one left off, I just thought that I would explain (in detail) why I have not been able to write.
Monday, August 22nd: I was all signed up for classes at the local college because, you know, I still need to get my full education- and of course we all know that education is the most important...blah blah blah. Anyway, Monday was a fantastic day for me. Classes went very well (if you can define 3 hours of economics as "well"- then yeah). Altogether I have to say it was a good day even if I did get home at 10pm. Not that I have a bedtime or anything (I am an adult). So, neener neener!
Tuesday: I would have to say that this day was even better than Monday! Only one class and it ended early. So, good!
Wednesday: Ahhh. Now here is where my whole week just fell apart. For the first half of the day, everything was fine, but at 5pm when I was sitting down for my final (5 hour) class... I come to find out that I am sitting in a Film Photography class! (and for those of you who don't know; I am digital all the way. I mean maybe one day I will go out into the world and learn all I can about film, but lets just take this one day at a time shall we?)
Anyway, FILM?!?! Why on earth would I sign up for a class that I know nothing about? And get this: it was an Intermediate film class! Well the instructor looks down the list of names and lands on mine. She turns to me and asks, "Jordan right? Well, where did you take the beginning course?" And I, not wanting to embarrass myself in front of a bunch of people who would probably snicker at the thought of me signing up for a film course instead of a digital course, lied. Now don't get all huffy, it's not like it was a big lie, and I dropped the class as soon as I got out of there! Anyway, I told her that I went through it in my previous college. I hadn't, but all she said was, "hmm...okay then."
Can you believe that it's that easy to get into the courses here at the local college? I mean they don't even check if you are qualified...whew I would have bitten off a little more than I could chew if I had stayed there.
After all that happened, I realized that I was missing something very important......PHOTOGRAPHY! Most of you who are students will know how hard it is to get into a class normally, but when the semester has already started and every class has been filled, what can you do? Well I found the only way I could possibly get into the correct class this semester: beg. I jumped onto my dying laptop and raced through every page and search engine I could to find the email addresses for any of the photography instructors on the campus (which by the way, really wasn't easy). Finally, after half an hour of compiling my resources and digging through everything I could possibly dig- I found two names. With everything I could muster I wrote an email begging and pleading to be let in. I explained all the reasons I could think of for them to allow me into any class that was open (I mean this email would make you cry). I said I would buy the book at full price, stand in the back of the room, and wait until someone dropped so that I could claim a seat. I know I sounded pathetic but when you need something as bad as I did...well, you sound like me.
I was on edge waiting for an email back, a whisper of hope, anything...I was refreshing my email every other minute just to see if it was there. And finally it came. An instructor who works for the college campus but teaches further away told me that if I was willing to drive out to where he was, he would accept me! WILLING?!?!?!? Hell yes! I agreed and was allowed into the class...
So, finally everything is back to normal in life and I hope to get right back into blogging; since I know my two followers are dying for something to read.
My next article will start where my last one left off, I just thought that I would explain (in detail) why I have not been able to write.
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