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[becomingkate]

I don't wanna talk about it, but #metoo. I'm glad I'm not the only one saying we shouldn't have to share our stories to bring about change. Women who don't want to share their stories (and it's not that they don't have stories, believe me, they do) are being made to feel like they're not brave, that they're not joining this fight. But it's the same thing as women having the burden of proof when it comes to assault and harassment. Like if there's no proof, it didn't happen. We have to stop expecting women to come forward and prove themselves. We know it happens. We can't say "Well this woman didn't say anything so she must have never been a victim of mistreatment." It's not true. Sometimes women don't even realize they've been mistreated because it's just part of life to them. It doesn't just include rape and other blatant abuse. It's words, attitudes and assumptions men have made about every woman, every day, whether anyone realizes it or not.

/soapbox

So, I have been keeping this under wraps for a couple days, but remember how I was struggling with astronomy? Like, failing quizzes and considering dropping the class. I've been taking tutoring, got a study guide and went to an extra study group, got some help from a guy who was unfairly cute (and also about 20 years younger than me). And I got an 89.5 on the first major test (4 chapters!) Then, just to keep myself grounded, I failed a quiz the next day. It's honestly not to my benefit that we have to take quizzes before we go over the material in class. I don't really understand that method. But apparently, once I study the hell out of it, I kind of get it!

Then I started the blog assignment that we have to do for the class (which I can't share with you, because I set it up on DW and I had to leave it public so he could see it, but I won't invite people to potentially put inappropriate comments and such, because I know how you people are :P But he really likes what I did with it and I'm looking forward to getting a few easy points for completing it. I knew my blogging habits would come in handy someday.

 
I just got an assignment back from Race Relations. I submitted it early, but didn't realize it was in the wrong format (he wanted pdf). So it took me a few days to figure out how to resubmit it online, I don't think it was set up right to accept resubmissions and I kept going back and finally one day it worked. I wasn't even sure if he was going to grade it since it was so late at that point. But he just posted the grade today and I got an A+ :D

I know grades don't really matter, but it does make me feel good to work hard and keep trying and have it pay off. I keep trying to impress this on my son but I'm not sure he'll understand until much later (like I did!)