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Signed Up

Well I managed to to get the college site to let me register for the PE class.

Since my email addy changed since I last attended a Los Rios Community College (1997) I was asked to fill out a new application – ok, no big deal. Then after logging in to their system it just kept throwing me into a circle where I would click on register, get sent back to the first screen, re enter, back to first screen – AUGH! So KRP and I drove down to the school and tried to explain. They peeps there decided that since it was an adaptive PE class that I needed to go to the disabled students trailer and talk to them.

We navigated across campus detoured by construction fences and stairways and ended up at the portable building. The lady at the desk looked at us like we had two heads. After KRP politely insisted on finding an answer the woman looked up my records. Although it took her 30mins to figure out the problem I give her an A for persistence but you would think that the person at the desk in at the disabled students resource trailer would have a clue what adaptive PE was and that just cause you look fine does not mean you are LOL.

I guess filling out the new application confused their computer program and it moved me from returning student classification to that of a new student. Since I had recorded units err augh I was not a new student so the the system rather than telling me that put me into limbo. The next day it finally showed me a date and time I would be able to register for classes ( umm huh ). That is at least the explanation I think we got.

So I logged in again and signed up for the class. I then made the mistake of going to the Solano system and tried to few my credits there LOL it says if you have been a student there since 1978 (my last classes there were in 1982) you can look up your student number and view your unofficial transcript – yeah right – according to them I have never been a student there – so guess I will have to to storage and find my hard copies . … cause I am so not driving there . …

So glad I got certificates when I went to Chico and Yuba’s summer science enrichment program. I was still in High School so I chose the Certificate rather than college units – so glad I have not lost my High School diploma goodness knows what proving that one would be like so many years later!

Turkey Talk

IMGP0006One 21 pound turkey ready to go in the oven on Thursday night. KRP cooked it up along with making gravy and mashed potato’s for our support groups Christmas Party on Friday. The party was fun and there were about 35 or so peeps in attendance. I had a good time even though the volunteer valet parker parked my truck about as far away from the club house where the party was held as possible and I ended up walking in the rain to retrieve it so I could load up the pans to take home.

I decided since he was enjoying his chance to down some of the good grub that I would get my truck myself so dont think it was a bad thing it just was I did not expect it to be such a long ways away LOL I actually enjoyed the hike in the rain just wish it had been a tad closer ha. Such is life now a few blocks walk is a hike geeze . …

Some of the gals I have met in the group have been taking an Adaptive PE course at the local Community College and took me along to the Holiday Party for all the Adaptive PE classes students. It was crazy so many folks going every which way but loose, lots of stuff going on, well .. I was thrown into sensory overload! Way to much way to fast going on around me so I kind of missed out on a lot of what was going on around me.

I did get the catalog with the College course descriptions etc, the form the Doctor has to fill out, and the schedule and managed to get them all home to look at. The class sounds like something that I could really use since they evaluate physical capibilities on an individual bases and then I would set my own goals but I am not sure if I want to commit to going four days a week for the whole semester. I have not made any long term commitments in the past few years and am sort of chicken to do so. Then again having to go somewhere everyday might be a good motivator to stave off the winter doldrums and do I ever know that this wacky body of mine sure could use some help.

I went online and found my student ID, updated my info ( just the email has changed ) so I have to wait until the system decides I am allowed to register for any classes. Maybe I will go with KRP and do it in person this afternoon if I don’t change my mind again.

It was kind of fun looking over the classes I have taken via the Los Rios Community College system. I figured out that i with my catalog rights (where when you start towards a degree you are guaranteed the requirements will be applicaple that were in effect when you started) I actually have earned a AA or AS is Math Science and Engineering here ummm … wonder what I would have if I transferred all my units from everywhere to Sac State LOL no fun in that . ..cause to get the four year from them I would have to take a foreign language again and now days coherent use of English is pot luck. Sides then I would have to transfer some of my units where I got a dang C in Chemistry (5 units worth because I missed the final) and that would like throw my GPA down to 3.7 something gasp and well my turkey ego is – well it is what it is – LOL

See how wacky my thinking is? I never apply for the degrees earned and then I don’t transfer units – the end result is lots of units and no degrees LOL LOL well I do have certificates of completion from here and there . …

Well maybe I will sign up for the short bus PE class?