{"id":291,"date":"2008-11-08T02:06:45","date_gmt":"2008-11-08T09:06:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/?p=291"},"modified":"2008-11-08T02:06:45","modified_gmt":"2008-11-08T09:06:45","slug":"the-week-is-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/the-week-is-over\/","title":{"rendered":"The week is OVER!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am so happy.\u00a0 Yeah, I’ve got a current events paper I’ve got to write for MESA 201…but I can do that in like twenty minutes.\u00a0 Especially since the paper itself is not due, just the stuff that has to be peer critiqued.\u00a0 And really MESA 201 is like a flashback to high school, so it’s really not that hard.<\/p>\n

As for Arabic homework…I’m trying hard not to think about it…was<\/em> trying…dangit!<\/p>\n

This is the main issue I had with this past week.\u00a0 Every time I thought I was free, some assignment or deadline that I’d forgotten would pop up and smack me across the head.\u00a0 Today, it was the Poli Sci 201 midterm (take home, open book).\u00a0 There was no other time except today (when it was due) that I could take it, so I ended up clocking out at work and doing it then.\u00a0 Freaking test probably cost me $30 to $40.<\/p>\n

But this blog isn’t supposed to be about my frustrations with school, it’s supposed to be about my frustrations with writing.\u00a0 And other life stuff.\u00a0 So I’ll write about something else.<\/p>\n

I’ve started to think about what I want to do after I get my bachelor’s degree(s?).\u00a0 Which is to say, I’m completely clueless at this point, but I’m trying to get a feel for my options.\u00a0 Yesterday there was an information session for the Masters of Public Policy program at BYU<\/a>, and it looks interesting.\u00a0 I would like to go to grad school, and it looks like this program would take me in a direction I’d be interested in following.<\/p>\n

Basically, the program prepares you to work as a policy\/research analyst, which seems like an interesting skill set I could take to a non-profit \/ NGO \/ lobby group \/ think tank, which is a career path (or set of paths) that I find intriguing.\u00a0 I’ll bet I could find some real satisfaction putting my mind to work for a social cause that I really believe in.<\/p>\n

But is this really what I want to do with my life?\u00a0 Do I want to spend 90% of my time working behind a computer at a desk, crunching statistics?\u00a0 And what about Arabic?\u00a0 How would I be able to use that?\u00a0 These are questions that need answering.<\/p>\n

As for writing, the plan at this point is to do it on the side if\/until it becomes lucrative enough for me to support myself and my family.\u00a0 In other words, for the next five-ten-fifteen years \/ forever, I’m going to be a mild-mannered man in a conventional (at least partially) career by day, and a super-power world-saving writer by night.\u00a0 Writing, at this point, is a given, a constant–I know<\/em> what I’m doing as far as my writing career.\u00a0 I just don’t know if\/when I’m going to make it my primary, so I have to make other plans like grad school \/ career path \/ whatever.<\/p>\n

I guess that’s one thing I find reassuring about all of this: writing leaves me a means of escape from being pegged down in a boring career for the rest of my life.\u00a0 And my pursuit of a career feeds my writing by giving me new and exciting ideas and perspectives to bring into my writing.\u00a0 I’m glad I’m not studying English.<\/p>\n

And…that’s about it for tonight.\u00a0 Holy cow<\/a> I’m tired!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am so happy.\u00a0 Yeah, I’ve got a current events paper I’ve got to write for MESA 201…but I can do that in like twenty minutes.\u00a0 Especially since the paper itself is not due, just the stuff that has to be peer critiqued.\u00a0 And really MESA 201 is like a flashback to high school, so… Continue reading The week is OVER!!!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[34,42,30,39,599],"class_list":["post-291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-college-life","tag-frustrations","tag-life-decisions","tag-schoolwork","tag-thoughts-reflections","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iXK-4H","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}