Student once again...in more ways then one!

So who's hair brained idea was it to go back to school...get an MBA...to be more marketable in an environment saturated with lawyers...oh that was me, huh.

So I start the Executive MBA program thinking "I can handle this...I have a law degree...I am smart, right?????" Then I get there and everyone assumes I must be a genius since I am a lawyer (us lawyers know that is not true), then they assume I can write really well (I can write, but prefer to talk)... It was all just a mess. Then I get a hater in my assignment group to top it all off. He literally made fun of one of my statements on an early assignment to only later find out I was exactly right. It was tough, people. TOUGH!

Then I began heaping the pressure on myself. I really want to represent my profession well. PRESSURE. I want to represent my race and gender and fight off the "angry black woman" stereotype. PRESSURE.

Then I realized there is nothing I can do but to walk down the path that God has prepared for me. Pastor Jenkins said that all you have to do is take the first step and God will do the rest.

All I have to say is AMEN!

- Sherri

Is it really so hard to be polite!

Am I becoming that grumbling old person who always complains about the injustices of the world....maybe....but there is one thing that really burns me up...lack of politeness.

Wouldn't the world be a nicer place to live if we were all a little more polite to each other.

I mean really, it is that hard to take turns letting cars in at a busy intersection or on the highway? Watch, things will be going along just fine until one rogue person just had to ignore protocol and speed by without letting anyone in. Seriously, is he going get to work any faster?

This brings to mind one episode of Seinfeld. The show opened with one of his standup routines and he is discussing how much he hates people who don't give the "wave." What is that "wave", you might be asking? The "wave" is the acknowledgement you give to another driver when they let you in traffic. Jerry Seinfeld proposed there is nothing worse then those who do not even give the minimum of a simple wave when you some other driver decided to be kind.

Let me give you another example of this politeness thing... I was walking into a store recently and I see a woman trying to open the door and push her stroller through at the same time. I was a mother of a young child once with a stroller, so I know what a difficult task that may be...so I rush up to hold the door. Can you believe that I didn't even get a thank you! The woman was very young, almost teenage...so I chalked it up to youth....but then...at the second set of doors, there is another woman trying to do the same thing (stroller/push open the door at the same time)...and can you believe she didn't say thank you either!!!!! Suddenly, I blurted out "You could at least say thank you!" Of course, the woman blurts out thanks and I am sorry..... Daggonit, she made me be rude in her failing to be polite! I know I shouldn't have said it but it just came out. I am not perfect by any stretch of the imagination... but politeness goes a long way. I, was not polite by my response..... Hate me, talk about me... I guess I am a work in progress...

Still.....I'm just saying, though... LOL!

SO....what to write....

So this is my second post....and I am not really sure what to write about. I sit around during the day and think "WOW..that would be an interesting post!" But now I am drawing a blank....can't think of a thing...at least nothing interesting. Lets see what I can come up with...

One thing I have been thinking about is that as a parent, I am always telling my children to work hard...do your best... But you know what, do I do that? Am I presenting the best me there is? Probably not. I remember that growing up most classes in school came easily to me except math. So once it required me to extend myself...to work hard at it...I struggled. Aren't we all tempted to cut corners...find the easy way out...the most profitable way with the least amount of work.

Perhaps, I do push myself...sometimes....but is that my method of progression...to work hard...NOPE! Heck, I even cut corners on housework..(shhh, don't tell anyone...). I want to be an example to my kids....

I have a lot of nerve telling Miles and Layla they could be better... when I could be better myself!

Creation

OK, so I decided to start a blog.... I really have no idea the purpose of this blog...but it sounded like a good idea. You know how you find yourself thinking about things during they day and you say to yourself "I should write this down"... Well, I am writing it down. :)

Like the other day for example, I was picking Miles up from baseball practice and it really bothered me that he was the only brown kid on the entire field (several teams were playing). I swear to you the coaches were staring at me. And I don't think they were checking out my outfit. Was it in my head? Maybe. So I spent the next half hour debating my racial sensitivities...

Man, I think about stuff like this all the time.... This blogging thing might work out...or at least keep me out of the Therapist's office!

- Sherri