I'm all 'bouts the schoolin

After high school, I was going to be a rock star. I didn't go to college, so instead, I slept until 11am and was in a band. We didn't go anywhere except practice - one "Battle of the Bands" our only show (we took not first). After a year of that, I decided to go back.

I went to community college for about a year and a half, but still took mostly music classes. Choir, Music History, Music Theory, Voice training, with some poorly attended academic classes thrown in. That ended during a month-long party when I house-sat for some friends of my parents. I and two friends ended up dropping out.

When I moved to Eugene, again I attempted rock stardom. We played every weekend and it lasted about 2 years. I worked shit day jobs, telling myself that it didn't matter what I did so long as music was being played. Being poor was fun.

Fast forward to 2002. I went to University of Phoenix because I could keep my day job and still get a Bachelor's Degree in Business Management. I had enough credits to enter as a junior, so long as during the two year program I still fulfilled the general education requirements (math, English, humanities). That didn't happen. After finishing the main part of the program, I got divorced, changed jobs twice, and let it slide.

Here it is five years later, and I can't think of a better time to go back. It puts my student loans into deferrment, I can finish my degree, and with a couple extra classes, actually come out with two degrees (Bus. Mgmt and Marketing). However, because it's been so long, the program requirements changed. Some classes I previously took no longer apply to the degree. Others were never offered before so I'll have to take them now.

So tonight, I start the 12 month process to get it back on track. One class at a time for five weeks, rinse, repeat. My first class tonight: Accounting. The shit side of all that is that I STILL need to take the general requirements.

Wish me luck.