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So it’s been a month since I started my grammar class, and I’m impressed at how fast time has gone. We’re already at Week 4, and even had our first test! As usual I’m nervous about how I did on the test, mainly because we had to give reasons for our choices of words or punctuation, which is a tough thing to do. It’s tough because often we don’t know the reasons why, although by taking this class I’m slowly learning the reasons, but it’s also tough because I don’t know how the teacher wants to hear the reasons. That is, how should I be phrasing the reason so that he understands and knows it’s the correct one? I’ll find out next week how I did, and I’ll be keeping my fingers crossed.

Yes folks, it’s about that time, time for me to get back to school. Woot! If I haven’t mentioned it before (and I suspect I haven’t since I haven’t blogged here in a while), I’m starting to take some official editing classes at a local college. First up is a grammar class. That’s going to be fun, yes, you read that right F-U-N. I am a grammar geek, so I’m looking forward to it. Since it’s been almost 10 years since I took a grammar class for my technical writing certificate, this should be good. I’m looking forward to discussing temporal clauses, or subordinate objects and all that other fun stuff. The class lasts 13 or 14 weeks, so I’ll be busy with it until the beginning of July. The best part of all is that I was able to get my current employer to pay for the class since we each get a training budget every year and most of us don’t use it. These classes aren’t very expensive, so it was no problem getting them to pay for it. Double woot! Although I would have paid for them myself since it would have been tax deductible next year, but since they were willing to pay, who am I to refuse?