my nerdy sabbatical
I took my final exam yesterday, and today I realize that I still haven’t really written about what I’ve been up to. If I don’t write about it today, that would mean that I Really Suck. Writing about it today simply puts me into either the “too busy” or “too much of a slacker” category. I assure you it’s the latter.
But seeing as I do not Really Suck, I am now writing. See?
I’ve been studying computer science at the University of Washington. Actually mostly just Java, with a little Python thrown in. And I have loved every single minute of it. I swear that if my introduction to computer science (lo those many years ago) had been this cool, I might have had a third major. And then maybe I’d be able to do something practical instead of just being able to calculate the wavelength of the chair I’m sitting on, as well as describe how its manufacture was a product of the military-industrial complex.
So yes, I’ve been having a great time. And it’s also been interesting to watch my professor have some of the same struggles I do as a teacher, as well as some of the same impact. I used his office hour almost weekly, and he and I spent as much time talking about teaching as we did talking about coding. I think he might be sick of me.
I don’t have anything cool that I can post for you yet. Sorry. I will have some web-based software running before the end of my sabbatical, in June. I can, however, share this: the other night at yoga, my instructor recited some Rumi, as he often does. But for some reason, maybe after a long day of coding, I saw Rumi’s words as if typed into a programming editor. And deep inside, I was a little bit proud of that.