get a bachelor's degree

I was JUST able to get the book all the other people have been working with for TWO MONTHS now, since I started the course a month late, almost, and by then all the books were sold and rented out in the entire country, and I couldn’t find the book on Amazon. I have been getting by in the quizzes by looking up info on Wikipedia and teaching myself, but now I have insane amounts of catching up to do. On top of everything else. Oh well. I can think of this as a fun challenge!

I am working on my B.A. now, finally, after a little bit of a hiatus from college (7 years), during which time I did a bunch of other stuff…studied Swedish and became fluent in it, lived in Sweden (twice), visited France, Holland, Denmark, and spent a day in Germany…ran away to Mexico for a while with a boy, went skydiving twice (one tandem, one level-one semi-solo), spent Christmas skiing, got married way too young, got divorced way too young…joined a couple of choirs, got vocal lessons, wrote a ton, completed The Artist’s Way, cut off unhealthy contact with unhealthy people, worked at a bunch of different places…car rental place, two different interior design stores, as a translator, an interpreter, a factory worker, a bank teller, a salesperson at the mall, a baker, a canvasser, at a college and a massage school, at an Indian restaurant in Gothenburg and an Ice cream shop in Copenhagen where I was only paid in ice cream…ran out of money and had a bunch of my stuff stolen from me in Denmark, leading to about a month and a half living in a homeless shelter there until I could get back on my feet again, learned a few words in Czech, learned the Russian alphabet in script and print, learned the Arabic numerals (which are really Hindi), studied a bit about Islam, studied art, twice…studied theology and metaphysics, Christian Science and Calvinism…fell in love with the internet, developed the most amazing friendship of my life, lived with traveling carpet-selling gypsies from Kazakhstan, learned how to cook halal, spent a bunch of time in therapy, studied various forms of self-development (learned all about Scanners and Creatives and Knowledge-builder personality types…got my enneagram results done)...dated a lot, etc. etc. etc…

At any rate, now I am back in college, and I love it, much to my surprise…though it is really hard to keep all the balls in the air when I am studying so many freaking things at the same time.

Right now, I am studying Spanish IV, linguistics, and a full art degree all at once, in addition to being involved in a new group where I am hoping I will learn to live more healthfully.

WISH ME LUCK!!!

But time is not being wasted. I am studying basic math and science and literature and Swedish to get into college. I am also studying Finnish, and considering taking a philosophy course, though that might be too much, and it might get in the way of my “be outdoorsy” goal, so we’ll see…

I want to do an online degree through the college I would’ve attended if I was back in Colorado.