macroeconomics and donuts

macroeconomics. i was listening to my teacher talk last night. i'm pretty good at listening to him for the first half of class. then we take a 10 minute break. then i have a hard time focusing in the second half of class. so much of what he says sounds like "blah blah blah" or like something from a peanuts cartoon. my brain just stops comprehending. overload. tired.

and i realized last night that every time he asked a question, whether i tried to answer out loud or just thought of an answer in my head, i had the wrong answer. every time. which is mostly ok, because if i already knew everything about macroeconomics i might as well challenge the class and be done with it. but it is frustrating, too, because then i feel like i'm not getting it. i also think my microeconomics background is weak because i took that class online. so this is going to be a rough semester.

or rather, a rough 8-week summer session. i almost forgot--this is a condensed class.

i had a nice chat with my chiropractor yesterday. i was asking him about his decision to become a doctor of chiropractic. good information. i'm glad that he was able to have that sense of direction early in life. (why am i such a flounderer?) i also learned from a friend that the research & development people who make donuts have "food science" degrees, not just a chemistry degree. good to know. i've never heard of that one before. (it sounds like a fun job though.)

i'm still searching, trying to figure out what i want to do with my life. i keep narrowing down the things i DON'T want to do, like accounting. retail. law. music. teaching. i would definitely prefer to design and bake the donuts than to have to sell them or to teach someone else about donuts. see how that works? but what DO i want to do? i don't want to keep frittering around accumulating associate degrees. this feels so futile. i need to move on to the next thing.