It Begins…
School officially begins for me tomorrow, and I’m dutifully procrastinating the completion of some of the required reading. I’ve finished reading all of the prep materials, as well as some additional reading, except for the elusive first four chapters of the Jolly text.
Actually, I’ve managed to “complete” the first two chapters, and hope to finish chapters 3 and 4 before I pass out some time this evening. But I’m not expecting much. It took me well over a week to complete the first chapter, and I honestly couldn’t tell you what it is about. During that same week, I finished several whole books, incorporated a business, took care of my son, travelled, visited friends, made dinner several nights, twiddled my thumbs, and otherwise occupied myself. Yet it was torture finishing one single chapter…
The book is incredibly thick (literally and figuratively) and probably uses every single word in an unabridged thesaurus—only once, mind you, Jolly seems to be the type of writer to never use the same word twice. Single sentences are so muddled with jargon and heady words that I literally have to take them one word at a time, simply to complete the sentence in my head, and then again to figure out what has been said. I’m exaggerating a little, but overall, the book has been a big disappointment. I really hope to finish it (such an achievement is looking bleak at this point) as I would really like to give it full review. We shall see…
I am looking forward to tomorrow—to beginning the program, as well as meeting everyone else who will be completing it—and truly hope to bring as many nuggets as possible back from the experience to this blog. We shall see about that too…
I’m off to attempt to finish the Jolly reading. (If I don’t post here for several days, I’m still in the deep sleep the text might very well put me into.)
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September 2nd, 2005 at 4:04 pm
It’s been awhile since you’ve faced the old monster homework assignments. How did week one go?
September 2nd, 2005 at 10:44 pm
Week one went quite well! The homework is actually not that bad—massive amounts of reading, but otherwise not that difficult (yet!). I think things will begin to tighten up next week, so I’m hoping to continue to enjoy this relatively quiet period through the rest of the weekend.
All of the people I’ve met so far are very interesting, friendly, intelligent and from broad backgrounds. You’ll be happy to know that I’ve mentioned my time at Willamette already (both good and bad contexts). The stories haven’t started, but I have noted firmly how that time in my life played a huge role in who I am today.
I’m still a little too tired and busy (and perhaps a little “out of it”) to start making regular posts here again, but I hope to do so again starting next week.