Putting a Life in Order

[kiya]

Preferably mine.

I spent a huge section of today going through the course offerings at reasonably local colleges and universities trying to see if any of them had the courses that I wanted to take. (If I'm reading BU's course catalog right, they have classes in Zulu but not in Polish. Now, I'll be the first to say that classes in Zulu are just terrifically cool, but not what I'm looking for.) (Not that BU is as convenient as it was back when we lived smack between BU and BC, but hey, who's counting.)

I'm slowly grinding around to the conclusion that I want to learn how to drive, only ten years after most of the people I know came to that conclusion. The prospect still terrifies me, but the fact that it terrifies me is mattering less and less as I ponder the possibility of needing to get to classes and the possibility that we may move up to near the New Hampshire border sometime in the next couple of years. Getting me a car while we're in this house is probably about as plausible as the parrot: where would we put it? So no immediate hurry.

In more immediate contemplations, am making sure to correct the plausibility on going to this year's PantheaCon in a month so that I can inarow my ducks. And send in my registration and make plane reservations and figure out how long I can stay with brooksmoses and suzimoses before I become annoying and all that good stuff.

Am getting terribly wary of the number of people who respond to me saying things are shiny with, "You've got a birthday coming up!"

So that's the broadly flavored arc of what's going on in my head, in amongst the other miscellanea. My father will be happy. (He's been wanting to know when I'm going back to school approximately since I dropped out, and has been of the opinion that if I'm not going back to school I should at least learn to drive.)

I like my stupid life just the way it is, and the chaos that surrounds me like a flock of screaming pigs . . .

Comments

[pantryslut.livejournal.com]

I don't drive either, and I am rapidly heading towars twenty years from the point where most people learn that particular skill.

[kiya]

Hail the wonders and glories of public transit.

[davidgoldfarb.livejournal.com]

Public transit is a terrific thing, and I use it myself (since I have chosen not to own a car). Still, it's always nice to have options.

[meranthi.livejournal.com]

I would not really have had that option, living in Colorado with *no* public transit. My choices were drop the choir I really enjoyed, or learn to drive, so I wouldn't have to take the school bus. Now, however, I don't have a car and generally don't miss it except when I either want to leave town or need groceries.

[thastygliax.livejournal.com]

Well, if Emerson ends up on your list, I can very easily get admissions material to you...at least for the rest of this month. ;-) Though most of what you need is almost certainly online.

[larksdream]

Parrots are cool. But loud.

[kiya]

I have very carefully researched a species that isn't known for tendencies to scream. ;)

[larksdream]

Madam, that is a DEAD PARROT.

[kiya]

S'just resting.

(They bite instead. As soon as they hit puberty.)

[larksdream]

With my luck, I would get some vile crossbreed, which would first scream and then bite. Or vice versa.

[kiya]

Avoid Amazons alliteratively.

[larksdream]

Better: buy biteless budgies!

[kiya]

Can't: controlling cat cravings.

[larksdream]

Darn. Dogs don't dine direly. Definitely devolved!

[kiya]

Excepting Es.

Factually, fids fear fewer felines; fatalities from Fido fun ferocious. Fully, forbid ferrets.

[larksdream]

Fully, forbid ferrets.

Gads! Godawful germy guttersnipes.

However, hopefully humble hamsters help hens have happy homes.

[kiya]

Indeed. Isolation instigates irenic interactions.

[larksdream]

Jailing justified?? Jaundiced justice! (Just joking?)

[ailbhe]

I don't want to learn to drive, either. Phooey. But people think that I should want to learn to drive, and some people even think that I should get a car.