'Bowling For Soup' Had it Right

The title of this blog post refers to the song High School Never Ends by Bowling for Soup, but for me I guess it would be College Never Ends.

This isn't really interesting, but it's going to play an important role in my life, so I decided to blog about it anyway. I've decided that I'm going to get two Bachelor's degrees, a Master's, and go to law school. Insane, right? Probably, but I've been panicking at the thought of leaving the student world and joining the career world (I don't count my job at Target as a career). It's still quite a few years off, and I know exactly what I want to be, but lately my classes are flying by (literally...I just finished my first 2-week Sociology class) and I've been trying to figure out how to get where I want to be while weighing the risk/benefits.

See, primarily I want to be an author, but I don't want to count on it to pay the bills, so I decided to become a literary agent. To do that, I have to get a Bachelor's, Master's, go to law school, probably get some experience as a lawyer, move to NYC, find a job in this god-awful economy, make connections with people in the literary field quickly, find and recognize talented writers, work my butt off to get their work published, and then hope that it pays off (because I get a percentage of their earnings). You can probably see the risk with this career. Overall, my future wasn't looking so good.

Then, in my Sociology class last week, someone mentioned that they were going into social work. I don't know what happened, but I have been hung up on it ever since. I know it involves kids (which I hate) and a lot of work for very little money (even though I'm cheap and greedy) but I couldn't stop thinking about what I could do in that kind of position. I can help people (even if they aren't always grateful), I can make the transition easier for people who would otherwise be facing someone cold and emotionless who thinks little of them, and maybe I can do something important with my life.

So, here's my plan. I'm going to get my degree in social work (whatever that degree is) and start going into that while I get my English Literature degrees (Bachelor's and Master's) and start working toward law school. I'm going to try to publish the next book I finish, which means I'll be working with a lit agent and can check out what the job entails while I'm getting there, and in the end I might just end up in NYC with a job I enjoy that miraculously paid off, or anywhere I want to be, doing something important with my life (even if my paycheck is suffering for it).

It'll be crazy for the next dozen years or so, but for some weird reason, I'm looking forward to it.

Reality Check

Today was the first day of my spring classes, and I left early enough that I could get there in time to find a parking spot, walk a ways if I had to park in the boondocks, and find my class. I got there to see cones lining off the streets, men in reflective jackets, and a bunch of sports-loving idiots walking across the roads in front of cars where there isn't even a crosswalk.

I love that colleges take the random public more into consideration that the students that are keeping them open. We pay out thousands of dollars to them, we work our asses off and donate our time to them. Most of us have jobs on top of going to school full time. But none of this seems to matter the whoever puts together the events, because they decided to have an event and cordon off half of the largest parking lot on campus, the one right next to my class, for a bunch of flag-waving, painted morons, most of which never even GOT a college degree and probably intend to work for walmart for the rest of their lives.

I spent twenty minutes fighting through crowds of cars, idiots wearing MY university's colors, many of whom decided to walk down the middle of the lane without any consideration for the crowds of cars that they were holding up (who had classes to get to), and when I looked at my clock and realized I was five minutes late for class, completely lost, all the way across campus from where I needed to be, and still not able to find a parking space, I left.

I should mention that the class I missed was a math class, which is my worst subject, and the class is apparently half online, which confuses the hell out of me, and I probably won't ever figure out how that works because this was my first class of the semester. They generally don't go through the syllabus twice.

Who Needs CGI?

I just found something completely awesome on youtube! This guy rocks my world. He does makeup tutorials, and I am completely in love with his "Avatar" movie makeup tutorial! This would be perfect for Halloween, so I'll try to remember to post something about him again in October!

Avatar Inspired Makeup Tutorial


Exposed Teeth Makeup Tutorial


Broken Doll Makeup Tutorial


Stapled Makeup Tutorial

Blogger's Block

To put it bluntly, this month has been a boring blip in my life, filled with nothing but couch-potato-ing, work, and school (and more of that than anything else). None of that makes for interesting blog material, so I'm at a loss.

So instead of getting something cool, you get to read about my upcoming events! 18th b-day is a month from yesterday (and on a Sunday, eesh). I still have nothing planned. Will probably go 18-to-enter clubbing later in the week - If anyone wants to come, text, tweet, or msg me and I'll let you know what's going on <3.

Otherwise, not much to report; I don't even have any new excerpts *sob*! I'll get to work finding something cool and interesting on the web. Until then:

visit me,
(I've rejoined the obsessive community of myspacers)

tweet me,
(I haven't left the obsessive community of twitterers)

or click play:


Muse - Uprising