Well, if you need me, I'll apparently be drowning in math nerdery through the spring of 2024.
This past week was apparently out for blood as I started my graduate school work. I told St. Anne the Wife that it felt like I'd jumped out of a moving vehical and have yet to roll to a gooey and mangled stop.
You up to talk about Financial Accounting or Quantitative Analysis? Balance Sheets and Income Statements? Cash Flows and Generally Accepted Accounting Principles? R Programing, both Linear and Non-Linear Functions, and the freakin' Greek alphabet pretending like we didn't move on? Needless to say, my handwritten uppercase sigmas (∑) and lowercase mus (µ) look like they're written in the dark with my left foot in Crayon. My lowercase sigmas (σ) look a bit better, but even I'll say that's being generous.
Not everything is a complete and bloody mess. A few things that are starting to click and I'm seeing the beginnings of some kind of rhythm. Back in the day I used to breakdown my weekly schedule into fifteen minute chunks to help keep me on track and organized. That spreadsheet got dusted off and tuned up this past week to help keep me from burning up on reentry into the (online) classroom. I'm just staring my second week I'm already something like 34 pages of notes into my Moleskine XL for these two classes. Pretty sure Anne wasn't as hyped about my note taking Legend, color usage, and layout as I was.
Did I mention I'm still a cinematographer and filmmaker? That I'm still super stoked about what I do for a living?
I'm still curious as to how all this nonsense will mix together. I had a dentist appointment the other day and we got to talking about the idea of "If you want something done, ask a busy person." We could go around and 'round with that idea in a street fight against the value of being bored, but it looks like my 15min chunks of time dedicated to "this week's blogpost" are up. Still, if I can figure out and be fluent in RED, Arri, (especially) Sony, and Canon camera menu systems, surely I can keep up with the 80-100+ pages of reading, note taking, and other class work I'm doing each week (plus trying to be a good/decent husband, dad, creative, etc.).
Oh, and I also finished that 400 page Debt: The First 5,000 Years book this past week.
"You all, markets come from the military industrial complex, capitalism is a dumpster fire, and we're all doomed..." says the dude going to business school.