what do I want to be when I grow up?

In school, struggling to keep myself well above "average" and having a interesting time competing; because the kids, they really are smart... and I'm feeling my age.

But, the bigger question, is how the hell do I pay for this adventure? It's not like I'm made of money, and rescuing cats and damsels in distress has taken all the starch out of my sails; more to the point, non-payment of funds has really screwed the situation. The worst part; I knew it going in... and did the damm thing anyway.

Mea culpa.

So now what...

I'm either unemployable (judging from my recent track record) but make a good consultant; except no-one is hiring... or I'm even worse as a consultant/marketeer than I am as an employee? It's a depressing concept.

I don't think so, but other opinions may matter. As I said... there's evidence.

But, between the various folk of good intent (but lousy financial responsibility); and the economy...

I'm feeling very Wile E. Coyote right now... just about the time the lonnng whistle down starts.

Midterms... (at my age?)

So, I can only report on one of the three midterms so far.

In the computer languages class I got all the points possible on the homework and on the mid-term; then the professor informs me that according to the CSUN roster, I'm not enrolled in the class! (WTF?)

It turns out, that when our darling legislature and the CSUN administrators (regents?) added the last fee hike after registration; they included a proviso somewheres that was supposed to say "you cannot register for classes in the new semester (next) until you have paid the fee increase", which makes sense. But they also said that you have until the end of the semester.

It doesn't work like that. What they did instead... is say "you get yanked from a class at random, if you haven't paid yet." Lovely. So now I am not enrolled in the class that I have my highest grades in...

I don't (yet) know about Computer Languages or Advanced Algorythms...