quitting before the race even starts

Thursday, August 26, 2004, at 11:51AM

By Eric Richardson

I decided today, before even attending the first class session, to drop my improv class. It's a 2-unit class, and at some point in either this semester or the next I do need to take one of those. But I don't think that time is right now. This semester is a pretty important one in terms of reversing my long-term trend of slacking off and while it may not appear at first glance that dropping a class is the way to do that, well, I think it is. This also gives me a neat time in my schedule to add the 4 telecommuting hours I hadn't quite placed yet, so that's an added benefit. And it gives me just one more thing with which to blow up my spring schedule.

For the last few semesters I've been quite good at scheduling my life into just Tuesdays and Thursdays to fit in some full days at work, but next semester that just isn't to be. I'm pretty much resigned to the fact that I'm going to be hereon campus every day in the spring, so why not be here for 18 units instead of just 16?

So that leaves me four classes for this semester, and I'm excited about all of them, so I guess that's pretty good.