Terminal Reinvention

Of course, I've talked before about one of the newer catch words -- reinvention -- and its relation to my life (or no relation to my life). 

Don't you just get all sick to your stomach at these Oprah words?  Me too.  No offense to Oprah by any stretch...the woman nails the pulse of what is goosing (mostly) women...but really?  And, what am I doing as I enter my friggin' second year of unemployment???  Well, glad you asked.  I am going back to school next week and finally finishing my B.S. degree...yippee!!!  Yup, I'm taking Italian 101 and a fiction writing course up at the campus and I am totally psyched. 

So by May of this year, I will have in my aging hand, a genuine college degree...first one in my family to have a four-year degree.  What it will mean to me and my employment life is a mystery, but for the next 15 weeks, I will be a legitimate college senior...yahoo!  I will have "reinvented" my "authentic" self (blech!) once again, but this time, I'm controlling it and not having it done around or to me.

Maybe reinvention is really Life which is in constant flux for all of us all the time.

It'll be interesting to learn what my mother used to call "proper" Italian instead of the Bari dialect that contained a lot of naughty-type words.  Ciao!