What I Wrote This Week
September 11th 2009 12:26
Hello! Today's scheduled post is an update (like every Friday) but I don't have much in terms of the writing world to say. I've blogged consistently and my blog stats are pretty steady, which always puts a smile on my face. I've written two out of three pages of information about the Fatalis Intarnati, which also makes me happy. I've got an author interview ready to go up on the blog as of Monday, disrupting the normal post schedule-I can't wait to have that up, and in a couple weeks to meet that author in real life (she's local).
More than anything though I'm just glad that I got into the high school that I wanted to, the dust is settled and I will be starting there on Monday. It means time for writing becomes a little scarcer-because I'm spending eight hours of my day at school/in transit to/from school-but that's what happens every September.
I've got mixed feelings about school. I'm happy that I'm out of the terrible, terrible school I was going to and into a school that I can handle. School is essential. I think it's kind of stupid just how essential schooling has become-there's really no way around it. Without your high school diploma you can't even work at McD's anymore. Without some sort of post secondary education you're pretty much stuck at McD's. Which doesn't give options for people who don't learn the way that schools expect them to, who don't have money for post-secondary education, etc.
You're stuck in this system of school for almost twenty years of your life-actually twenty if you go to university/college or miss most of a year for whatever reason-and then you get a job dictated by the system. The system decides where you can and cannot work based on your education choices. And many people will look down on someone without a university/college degree, and no matter how well the person may have taught themselves in whatever area of business it is, they will always be sneered at to an extent.
Anyway, I'm not going to rant on and on about school. I'm in school, I have to do the daily drudgery to get anywhere in today's system, and as much as I am a writer and want to strike outisde of the mainstream system and find my own way, I accept that it's getting harder all the time to do these things, and that I need to make sure I can still fall back on the system if my explorations don't bear fruit.
~Dianna
More than anything though I'm just glad that I got into the high school that I wanted to, the dust is settled and I will be starting there on Monday. It means time for writing becomes a little scarcer-because I'm spending eight hours of my day at school/in transit to/from school-but that's what happens every September.
I've got mixed feelings about school. I'm happy that I'm out of the terrible, terrible school I was going to and into a school that I can handle. School is essential. I think it's kind of stupid just how essential schooling has become-there's really no way around it. Without your high school diploma you can't even work at McD's anymore. Without some sort of post secondary education you're pretty much stuck at McD's. Which doesn't give options for people who don't learn the way that schools expect them to, who don't have money for post-secondary education, etc.
You're stuck in this system of school for almost twenty years of your life-actually twenty if you go to university/college or miss most of a year for whatever reason-and then you get a job dictated by the system. The system decides where you can and cannot work based on your education choices. And many people will look down on someone without a university/college degree, and no matter how well the person may have taught themselves in whatever area of business it is, they will always be sneered at to an extent.
Anyway, I'm not going to rant on and on about school. I'm in school, I have to do the daily drudgery to get anywhere in today's system, and as much as I am a writer and want to strike outisde of the mainstream system and find my own way, I accept that it's getting harder all the time to do these things, and that I need to make sure I can still fall back on the system if my explorations don't bear fruit.
~Dianna
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