Access: Denied

Today I'm dealing with the repercussions of a department and supervisor update in our Oracle personnel module that disabled all of my system accesses and agonizing over whether or not I want to take the full six credit hours I can take this semester. I may be overthinking it. On the one hand, I'm pretty sure I can handle two classes (they're both Lit classes, which I think is one of my strengths...I may be proven very wrong very soon, however). On the other hand, I didn't want to take two writing-heavy classes; I would have liked to vary it and take a history class (even though the Civilizations class I was interested in is being taught by my former departmental VP), because I need to ease back into formal classroom learning. The next step is to get the waiver approved and turned in before the upcoming deadline.

I still owe a couple of people a post about vacation earlier this month. Every time I sit down to write it, I get distracted. And here I am planning on taking two classes this semester? Okay. I'll work on that update this week.

I invited another former coworker to network on LinkedIn. I still haven't *quite* figured out how I'm going to get online networking to work to my advantage as part of my long-term master plan. (Relax - it doesn't involve world domination. Yet.) For now the whole concept of "networking", be it social or professional, just feels like I'm collecting people. Like butterflies. Except there are not literal pins involved, of course. Just figurative pins. Because no one makes pins that large.