SETTLING IN

Soooooo. Getting adjusted to first full week of class. Still feel like I don't know what to expect or what's expected (and I hate surprises).

I also strongly dislike anything inchoate (won't go to bed till the job is done), and I'm not an experimenter or explorer. Personal experience is my last mode/stage of learning and engagement, not my first. I like to do things vicariously and even virtually, and yet I am a total nonbeliever in transhumanism. Just give me the textbook. I would much prefer to watch the National Geographic special than go there. I'm the anti-tourist. "Go with the flow" is the antithesis of my personal philosophy which would be more like "direct the course of the current," or "go upstream."

I think my general attitude in a lot of ways is: whatever is going to save me the most amount of time, whatever is the shortcut (as long as it doesn't diminish the actual value and purpose of something), that's what I want. I have totally overextended myself for the past few years, and have declared 2015 to be the "Year of No." "No," was my actual New Year's resolution, so when I feel like anything is going to take up too much of my time, it irks me no end. I was unsuccessful in saying "no" (some things were beyond my control to say "no" to--just not an option for me) for January, February and March, but I have axed all other opportunities, travels, jobs, presentations for the remainder of 2015. The first "no" is the hardest. :)

Perhaps it's good for me to get out of my comfort zone with this class, try a new learning style, BUT I do love social media, blogging, writing, etc., and I don't mind sharing all kinds of personal reflections, so...here we go! I might even have fun. :)