I could probably come up with a whole lot to tell you about myself, but really, isn’t that what the whole damn blog is for, anyway?
The basics then:
1. I’m married.
2. I have two kids, a boy and a girl, ages 8 and 10.
3. I have three dogs: Casey, a Border Collie, and Jed and Peso, both Brittanies. The brittanies like to hunt.
4. I have a cat, Cheeba. She’s actually my husband’s cat, so I didn’t name her. We used to have 3 cats, but Amber got hit by a car soon after we moved into this house 10 years ago, which led us to getting the first of our dogs. And Chester, who was a big Maine Coon tough-ass ball of fur, had a tumor in his mouth that ruptured about a year and a half ago, and we had to put him down. I have his ashes in a container on my mantle. People from the neighborhood are still coming around and asking where Chester is, as the rabbits are eating their gardens.
5. I am a writer.
6. I went back to school almost two years ago to finish my Master’s degree, and because I am not only a glutton for punishment AND a bit of a sicko about loving to go to school, I tacked an additional Master’s degree program on, for fun. So now, I am persuing a Master’s in Creative Writing and a Master’s in the Teaching of Writing.
7. I don’t have a paying job. I hate work.
I’m sure there’s more, but a lot of stuff is covered in the 100 Things.
Hi Vikki! Hope all is well in your world. Sounds like you have many blessings on your plate. I’m like you, many degrees.. but I don’t wanna work either. They should pay us to stay home & keep out of trouble, huh?
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I commend you on your degrees and well decorated status, but I must ask, what good are those degrees if you don’t you them to work and pour something back into the world? More to the point, what good is a teaching degree if you have no desire to teach?
Adam-this is an interesting comment and I appreciate you leaving it.
I think what I meant by not having a paying job and hating work is that I do not have a paying job, aside from the minimal amount of money I earn tutoring writing to college and inner-city high school students, as well as teaching a writing workshop to a class full of 5th graders as part of pursuing my degree. I love every minute of it. I don’t like work that doesn’t feed anything back to me, but teaching does that.
I do have a desire to teach. In fact, I’ve got an overwhelming desire to teach students who did not have the opportunities that I did, who attend school within a system that seems to have only one goal-to get them the hell out. I don’t envision myself (as I once, admittedly, did) working at a high school in a wealthy suburb, with a cushy job in the English department teaching writing. I do envision myself teaching writing on many levels-to college students and also to disadvantaged high-school students, possibly within the type of program through which I tutor them now. In fact, my dream is to start such a program.
I should probably refrain from being so snarky all the time. It makes me look like a bitch. Which I can certainly be much of the time.
Viki-Your clarification makes sense. It seems like you have the right idea and certainly the passion to pursue it. I suppose what you’re doing falls under the old saying of work you enjoy shouldn’t feel like work at all. Keep it up!
Thanks for coming back to see my response, Adam. I appreciate it.
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