$.09 available in the bank. Time to go shake some people's trees and get paid.

The Rodney Dangerfield "Back to School" episodes continue. Suddenly I find I have to take 10 classes to get a degree from U of L, when I only need 4 to meet the requirements to graduate. I could go back to UK, but 9 more classes in town vs 4 in Lexington almost sounds like a good deal. To be honest, my accounting skills could use a little honing. But this semester looks like: history of the middle east since 1453, world civ 2, and one of the two philosophy courses I need for the degree. The question is- do I take the really cool "Social Philosophy of Individual Responsibility" thing, which involves real reading and some grind, and takes me out of the Tuesday Systema class, or the Modern philosophy seminar?

It's actually the systema thing that's the dealbreaker. That stuff is doing me some serious good, physically and mentally. The same relaxation of fear-responses in physical fighting translate directly into responses to stress in business crunch times. IE, breathe through it, relax, move.

Then again, the Individual Responsibility thing is the guy's specialty, gets all into corporate responsibility, the freedom of the individual and the nature of group associations and our responsbility to them. The "only following orders" problem. When does the bureaucrat bend the rules they know to be unjust? Interesting stuff. And being in effect a corporate citizen now, I know it's not as simple as greedy evil corporations oppressing the people.

So for now I'll be in 4 classes, and figure out what to drop later. Note to self: do not overload. It's a weakness of mine.

Resolutions:
maintain. (school, shop, physiological balance)
seek out new human social activities.

These are doable.