Shawn has now informed me that he's quitting his LONG HAUL driving job in favor of a shorter haul driving job local to Ohio. This in light of his recent diagnosis. Did I mention this? I diagnosed it as diabetes and it turns out I was completely right. Good call for me but not so great for Shawn.

I have mixed feelings about his quitting though. For starters it's going to absolutely break Kathrynn's heart. He'll be here this weekend. And if the new job goes as planned he won't be back again. And the kids will go over there for the summer. That's 4 months without daddy. Ouch!

A bigger ouch logistically is we haven't finalized the divorce yet! Which means he will need to be here for two hearings and a parenting 'class'. All in the next few months. I don't know how that will be possible if he's driving exclusively in Ohio.

It will all work out... it will all work out...

In other News I got a 90% on my Math test. Not superb. But still the class average was 73.5% so I feel good about it. Teacher: still adorable but pretty sure he's married, or possibly just sporting a fashionable left hand band because he likes it?...

I don't have much time to write as I need to get home to the kiddos. I had my first Algebra test today. I believe I did well. I didn't exactly breeze through it but I'm sure I did well. I also took my second History test today. I missed one answer. : ) I really think I can pull off a good grade in that class.

I'm actually hoping to do well in all of my classes. I've never cared much about exact grades. My parents never put much emphasis on them. If I remember correctly I graduated Highschool with a 2.985 or something ridiculous like that. LOL Upon going back to college I find that my cumulative GPA is 2.7. Out of 4.0 that seems really low. But it's actually a very low B. So not terrible. And actually surprisingly a LOT better than I would have expected considering how much effort I DIDN'T put in the first time around. Anyway, so, now I have some redeeming to do. I need to get that GPA up because I'm really hoping to go someplace this time around.

I've been shopping colleges (because CBC will only get me so far) and I'm leaning towards Evergreen in Olympia. It seems like a fantastic school. The downside being they don't appear to offer ANY kind of family housing and the off campus housing in the area seems prohibitively expensive... sigh.

Sometimes I wish I had done college back when I was single and childless.

I breezed through my first History test. It's online and we had a week to take it so I took it the moment it was available. Today in class there were young girls sitting next to me discussing when they might take it and how much studying they still needed to do for it. I told them it was pretty easy. Not only is it easy but you have the chance to take the test again and it will average your grade. One said "yeah but you're, like, a history major aren't you? It might not really be that easy." LOL

I'm no history major. That's for sure.

Incidentally, today I was almost late to class which meant that my usual seat at the very front of the class was already occupied by the lovely curly haired dark eyed girl I met the first day... anyway, so I had to sit WAY in the back. I make it a point to never sit WAY in the back. I don't like it back there. Very distracting. I missed the front. Not only could I not see very well, but I didn't feel as connected to the lecture as I normally do.

I sit in the back in Algebra as well. That's not my fault. Coming into the class 7 days late and the fact that I'm always just barely on time for that class make sitting in the back unavoidable. Did I mention the distance I go for this class?? My history class is in the B building. And Dr.Chisholm ALWAYS lectures up to the end of class, often a minute or 2 over. My old math class was in the S building which was just close enough that I could stop and pee on the way and just barely make it on time. My Algebra class is in the W building! I know this means nothing to you if you don't know CBC but imagine the distance from B to W and you will get the idea. The W building is SO FAR away I didn't even know it existed!! And I have, best case scenario, 10 minutes to get there. Who needs fitness lab??

I asked good questions in Algebra today. My adorable teacher said "Excellent question!" So even if I'm not the youngest or the prettiest and I have to sit in the back, I have ways of being noticed. : )

Of Algebra!! :) I love Algebra! It's SO MUCH easier than PreCalculus. I actually walked in today, completely cold, missed the first week, and I UNDERSTOOD what was going on! Not only that but I helped others as well. I LOVE Algebra!

Oh, and to elaborate on the adorable teacher situation. He's adorable in such a way that I would totally go out for drinks with him if he asked... but I would card him first!! LOL Of course there are about 20 other younger prettier girls in my class that have also noted his adorableness. My chances are decidedly zero! LOL

But there were two nice boys sitting next to me who didn't seem to be 17 OR the teacher... ;)

Ok, not really. I feel no shame or horror. I do however feel a little... I don't know, not so fresh! LOL

We had our first test in PreCalc today. I studied my ass off which is really not like me. I didn't expect to do swimmingly as I KNOW I'm rusty. But honestly I expected to muddle through. See, I test well. I always have. Generally I can BS my way through tests like you wouldn't believe. I've had many undeserved victories on the testing battlefield. In fact I can't really recall EVER bombing a test completely. Well, not until today. And I bombed it. To smithereens.

I actually cried. Not a lot. Not noticeably to the girl sitting next to me but I did. And then I sat through the rest of the class just waiting for it to be over. I talked to the teacher after class, told him I was switching to the lower class. No uncertainty about it. He's very nice. He even agreed to try to find me an Algebra textbook so I don't have to sell back my PreCalc book and buy an Alg one. Since he's confident that I will be back in PreCalc next quarter.

As a sidenote my new Algebra teacher is adorable! ;) I wonder if he's single...

Again with the three month lack of blogging. Sheesh.

So I'm in school now. CBC is harder than I remember. No, using my brain is harder than I remember. So is asking for help.

I'm taking History (My second least favorite class in highschool), Math (My first least favorite) and Fitness Lab (read it as GYM and understand my horror!) But I have this crazy amazing urge to succeed at it which is all new and weird to me. I'm in PreCalculus. This baffles many of you I'm sure, especially if you went to school with me and were the only reason I passed Algeba (That would be Anna, in case you were wondering). I'm not sure how I ended up in PreCalc. I honestly think it was a clerical error. See my transcript says I took College Algebra (10 years ago) and passed with a C which qualifies me for this class. Never mind that I distinctly remember the first day (and only the first day) of that class and the fact that it was too hard and I was about 80% sure I dropped out of it. It's not that I have a horrible memory. I don't. And 10 years, while admittedly a long time ago, is not so long ago that I could completely forget an entire class!! I remember lots of my other classes. So, not surprisingly, PreCalc is hard. And while I feel giddy doing it (I can't explain it, it's the same feeling I get doing my taxes). I feel that for the most part I am in WAY over my head. I've thought of putting myself back down to Alg. No shame in that I know. But I do feel that the less classes I have to take over all the happier I will be. Of course if I fail this class I'm screwed... But the teacher is nice at least.

My history class promised to be everything I hated in highschool history plus a written paper. Lots of Names, dates, wars and bloodshed. Just what made me sleep through (or skip) it in highschool. But honestly I'm really really liking it. The teacher is a HUGE history nerd and there's nothing like listening to someone talking excitedly about something they love even if it's not something you're interested in. Plus he likes Monty Python. And I swear I've seen him at Radcon... though I can't guarantee that.

Fitness lab looks better than expected too because really it's just a (really) well stocked gym that I get to use when I want at my own pace. The only stipulation is I have to get a certain amount of hours in before the end of the quarter. I don't think it will be a problem.

Oh another great thing about going to school... internet access!! At least the 4 days a week that I'm here! YEAH!!