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I guess I don't update very frequently...
Feb. 26th, 2006 09:23 pmOr at least not public or even all-friends entries...I just realized that as I was looking back at my posts for the month, which seem numerous enough from my vantage-point...but I guess it might not appear that way to others. I guess I'm not doing much worth reporting to the general public. I'm on Facebook, Hi5, MySpace, and Bebo now, in case anyone wants to look me up there. Actually, my Marine brother has uploaded some pictures on his wife's account on Facebook, so if you look up my last name and convince her to add you as a friend (unless you already go to school with her), you can see some pictures of Malachi in the shark-infested waters of Cuba.=D LOL! Gotta love those pictures...thankfully, there are not any sharks in the pictures. He does look like he's having fun.
People are constantly asking me how school is going, to which I always crack up...since I quit school nearly a year ago. But what is one to expect? They know I graduated from high school at some point and they haven't heard of a particular career, so of course I MUST be in school. As it happens, however, I'm not, even though I do have intentions of resuming my education as soon as I have the means (financial and otherwise) to do so. I've been very glad to take some time out of school, for various reasons. I think I approached school the wrong way during my time at the community college. I was very class/work-oriented, forgetting (much of the time) that people are more important than grades, assignments, papers, and tests. I'll certainly grant you that all of those academic things are important (haha--of course I would grant that), but I've realized that I've sacrificed many opportunities to build relationships. And that is sad. I want to change that.
I don't want to change my grades, but I do want to shift my priorities to people. One thing that inspired me was reading about Mrs. Gilbreth (the mother in Cheaper by the Dozen), who was allowed to attend college as long as she was faithful in attending to her duties as a member of her family. She went to school as a daughter and acquired a master's degree before marrying Mr. Gilbreth (who had no college degree). After that, she went on to pursue a doctorate--and attended the graduation ceremony with her first four children. LOL! She was very successful in all that she did, but she did not (as far as I can tell) neglect her family to do it. I want to be like that! I do want to finish school and all that, but I don't want to sacrifice family relationships or friendships in the process. I want to be faithful. Now, obviously, this will be a tough balancing act, but I'm hoping that it will be better when I return to school than it was during those first two years.
Another woman who inspired me was a fictional one in Elizabeth Gaskell's Wives and Daughters." I suppose the story line should lead us to admire Molly, to disdain Mrs. Gibson, and to respond to Osborne, Roger, and various others. But one who did not show up in the mini series as I would have liked (and whose character was, therefore, not quite as well-developed as I had wished) was Squire Hamley's wife. After she died, Squire Hamley had a very hard time because, while she had lived, he had always gone to her to have his feelings fixed. Okay, I'm not being as eloquent as Mrs. Gaskell here, but basically...she understood him, sympathized with him, and helped him to feel better about difficult situations. He always turned to her for this. That is the kind of wife I would like to be if I get married someday! She was a model of selflessness, eventually discontinuing her visits to London because she knew how much he missed her while she was gone (and how unwilling he was to accompany her).
Anyway, so those are some random things on my mind at the moment.
People are constantly asking me how school is going, to which I always crack up...since I quit school nearly a year ago. But what is one to expect? They know I graduated from high school at some point and they haven't heard of a particular career, so of course I MUST be in school. As it happens, however, I'm not, even though I do have intentions of resuming my education as soon as I have the means (financial and otherwise) to do so. I've been very glad to take some time out of school, for various reasons. I think I approached school the wrong way during my time at the community college. I was very class/work-oriented, forgetting (much of the time) that people are more important than grades, assignments, papers, and tests. I'll certainly grant you that all of those academic things are important (haha--of course I would grant that), but I've realized that I've sacrificed many opportunities to build relationships. And that is sad. I want to change that.
I don't want to change my grades, but I do want to shift my priorities to people. One thing that inspired me was reading about Mrs. Gilbreth (the mother in Cheaper by the Dozen), who was allowed to attend college as long as she was faithful in attending to her duties as a member of her family. She went to school as a daughter and acquired a master's degree before marrying Mr. Gilbreth (who had no college degree). After that, she went on to pursue a doctorate--and attended the graduation ceremony with her first four children. LOL! She was very successful in all that she did, but she did not (as far as I can tell) neglect her family to do it. I want to be like that! I do want to finish school and all that, but I don't want to sacrifice family relationships or friendships in the process. I want to be faithful. Now, obviously, this will be a tough balancing act, but I'm hoping that it will be better when I return to school than it was during those first two years.
Another woman who inspired me was a fictional one in Elizabeth Gaskell's Wives and Daughters." I suppose the story line should lead us to admire Molly, to disdain Mrs. Gibson, and to respond to Osborne, Roger, and various others. But one who did not show up in the mini series as I would have liked (and whose character was, therefore, not quite as well-developed as I had wished) was Squire Hamley's wife. After she died, Squire Hamley had a very hard time because, while she had lived, he had always gone to her to have his feelings fixed. Okay, I'm not being as eloquent as Mrs. Gaskell here, but basically...she understood him, sympathized with him, and helped him to feel better about difficult situations. He always turned to her for this. That is the kind of wife I would like to be if I get married someday! She was a model of selflessness, eventually discontinuing her visits to London because she knew how much he missed her while she was gone (and how unwilling he was to accompany her).
Anyway, so those are some random things on my mind at the moment.
