What did I sign up for?

I had been thinking that now is a good time to take a class or two on subjects I am interested in learning more about.  One such interest is photography.  Not photography from a "I could make money taking photos of weddings, bar mitzvah, or baby showers," but photography from a "I could take out the camera on family vacations and not have my children running to take the camera out of my hands because my pictures are so bad."

While my son, a senior in high school, was at SCCHE signing up for a class that satisfied his dual enrollment status, I signed up for Digital Photography. As I entered into the classroom on the first day, the instructor asked how we were feeling.  One student replied, "Anxious."  I silently chuckled.  "Anxious"  I don't get that.  Suffice it to say, "Ignorance is bliss."

I was in happyville before class started but soon learned why anxiety would have been a welcome emotion to what I would be experiencing by the end of the class period.  Journals, blogs, profiling famous photographers, emails, camera ever in the ready just to name a few items on the "TO DO LIST".

All this weekend while watching a soccer ball get kicked across the pitch, I kept asking myself:
"What did I sign up for?" Right now, I am not so sure, my head is still swimming in a pool of anxiety and despair.  Hopefully by the end of these 16 weeks I will be able to say, I signed up for a Digital Photography class and received something even more rewarding than I could have imagined.