I honestly prefer freelancing to working for a company. I feel that companies are time thieves that suck up your time. That’s why doors don’t open for me because people I interview with know how I feel. I’m a freelancer, in business for myself. I’d rather do my freelancing than work for a company with drama at this point. I’m done being pushed around by people who think they know what’s best for me. Many jobs have proofreading tests that I don’t feel ultra-confident about doing just yet. I’m applying for freelance jobs, making lists, writing down the dates, and in general, doing my best to find something I can tolerate.
I’m writing an article that I want to market to Salon.com. This article has already had a rough draft published on Vocal Media. I want to polish this draft, with the outline I already have. My argument is that the two party system is a waste because everybody is starting to see how divisive it is. Sure, at 18, everybody gets the right to vote. Both parties are inherently crazy, because neither are the good guy right now if they can’t figure out how to safely reopen the economy without getting everybody infected with Covid-19. Both parties look out for corporate interests, and themselves, but not each other. For the love of God, work things out, work together for the common interests, and not for lobbyists.
Okay, many in my neighborhood do not wear masks, as if that’s passé. I’m wearing a mask only because it will keep me well. I do not need or want the virus. If I stay away from people, I won’t get it. Every Zombie movie gets into that anyway, if you pay attention to critical elements in those stories. Any plague movie really, features the main character staying away from people, and surviving. This is really my plan, and I’m really glad I do not have a roommate, while also being able to read who will take advantage of me. I wear a mask to protect myself–so don’t find that bemusing. I’m doing it to not get sick for any reason.
Now that everything is online, I may have an easier moment getting my Foothill College transcript. I need to be able to get my transcript to know where I’m headed. I just emailed Foothill College admissions and records. There is a way to use online transcript ordering. This morning I have gotten as far as, oh I signed up for Parchment, and I’m getting a verification code, but I’m not buying my transcript just yet. This is the first step in the process. I’m looking forward to eventually enrolling in an online course, but not right now. I logged into Parchment by now, only because I want to be able to access the system, I set up a password. The first step has been taken.
And that class should be English 1A first, to see if I can improve my standing. I’ve taken online classes before, not only for Greyschool.com but with Foothill College back when the online program was new. School is tempting for me because I like learning although I have to limit my consumption of classes, academia, and studying. Yes, in fourth grade when school work got difficult for the entire class, with too much of it being assigned so much so that one student could only take 45 minutes a night, I managed to not get too overloaded although I felt overload from oncoming type 1 diabetes, and other health situations cropping up at that time. I know from personal experience how ugly overload can get for me. I mean manic, overreacting, panic, unable to do anything, stressed out crazy, is the reaction I have to deal with when overwhelmed. So yes, I have to be careful with school because it is like crack for me.
Yes, for now, I have limited resources with regard to how I can get my OCD treated. I’m working on it, only because I want to make sure that I can handle real school in the classroom again without being triggered into caffeine addiction or alcoholism. Alcoholism may actually be something that could come back if I let myself slip into my low self-esteem problems. OCD lends to give you repetitive thoughts that rattle around in your head all the time.
The thoughts make you think that you have a germ or are contaminated with something. Or maybe you didn’t lock the door all the way. Or maybe you left the stove on. OCD people get triggered very easily, and can be mean to people when they do not get to double-check their compulsion. One time in college, I really did leave a frying pan on the stove, it wasn’t my imagination. My OCD was not treated back then, and I was deprived of the knowledge of having it. I had to insist on a diagnosis from my doctor at the time. She eventually did realize I knew better. I use self-help books and things I learn from them to treat myself.
I figured since I already studied anthropology, I could study psychology next. I want to take Psych 1 again, and English 1A again to prove that I can get an A in English class these days. I could go after fee waivers and make sure they know I’m only interested in the online program. If I need to pay $31 a unit that means I have to take Psych 1 again as my first class. I’m lost as to how the student website works these days, even if I knew how to use it back when it was new. I also know I have to take elementary statistics, and there are plans to take general biology at De Anza, which is closer to me because it’s accessible by public transit. English 1A is listed as support course, so the first class to start taking again really is English 1A. I’ve already taken Anth 1, also known as physical anthropology. That leaves Psych 1 Positive Psychology, which is four units, and Psych 25, abnormal psychology would put me slightly above 10 units given that Anth 1 is already on my transcript. We cannot fiddle with logging in today since that leads to temptation.
Okay, so I want to take Udemy classes on multiple topics, such as Learn Ethical Hacking From Scratch, $9.99 to see if someone is spying on this computer. I want to also take a grant writing class, Grantwriting for Non-profits and Freelance Writers, at $10.99. My first class this month though will be my technical writing class, on Udemy, costing me $10.99. There is also a class called Introduction to Successful Grant Writing, at $9.99. I really can’t overload myself though. How to Be Psychic, Psychic Development for Beginners, $11.99, is another useful class I can take, at $11.99. How to be A Psychic Medium, for beginners is another class $9.99. There are plenty of classes to choose from. I also need to study marketing, Marketing Fundamentals is $9.99, and I have SCORE classes to choose from. I saw one today, but I already know how to use Google drive, having taken a free class in that from Work 2 Future.
My level up payment went through, I’m now a Year 6, which means I have moved up in Greyschool land. Greyschool is an interesting educational option, only because I get to study what I can with it, in an online environment as most school has gone online in 2020, temporarily. My classes had to wait in a holding pattern from November 2019, I have three classes and a Reiki credit I need to upload. I’m taking classes such as Laughter is the Best Medicine, which couldn’t have come at a better time than right now with Covid-19 lurking around every street corner.
This class has 10 lessons. My next class is psychic healing, which is also perfect for these weird yet interesting times. There are 5 lesson in this class, I should get done with it quickly if I come up with a lesson plan spreadsheet. Writing my lesson plan on Excel has been quite informative. Path of the Black Wizard is my last class; there are 11 lessons in this class and two tests, a midterm and a final. I’d better do well in all my classes but at the same time, I have to learn to not let learning and my perfectionist streak get to me and/or cause me stress.
This month I plan on paying for classes on Udemy and Udacity. This is what I’m covering first in this post, since spiritual classes must remain in a separate category save one on Udemy, which I want to sign up for. I found a technical writing class on Udemy. Yes, I feel a need to take it in order to widen my knowledge on technical writing, which I haven’t necessarily studied. The Udemy Akashic Records class is one class I want to take to see how it is. Udemy has a private investigator class about skip tracing I’m signing up for on the 15th, when I’m also buying a friend of mine’s CBD cream.
As for Udacity, I’m working on the How To Build a Startup class, and then they have Intro to Computer Science. I bombed it while in junior college many years ago, because of this one teacher who wouldn’t give me a break as well as imbalanced brain chemicals from caffeine addiction, alcoholism, and stress along with being improperly treated since my treatment at the time was half-assed. But back to Udemy for the present moment, I found an investigative interviewing class that interests me, fact checking made easy, and one business and technical writing class that I need anyway, called a writing immersion course. I want to take an English class at an accredited junior college online though. Since my bachelor’s is in English, I can skip all prerequisites if I manage to submit my college transcript. But normal school must be a well-thought out proposition.
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