Pink streaks and digi-geeks

Hi to any friends slash fam that read my rants and ravings on this here bloggity. You may be few and far between but alas! that matters not to me, ye ol' writer. I write as though I'm writing a letter to an old love that lives across the ocean.

As I wrote in my last novel-long entry, I quit the day job. And though having nothing to do but drink beer, water flowers and watch 6 seasons of Weeds during my lazy summer dayz is easy as Sunday morning, it's not what I'm really cut out for. I'm a Virgo. I like organization, cleanliness, lists, and productiveness. If only I could find a decent job with a nice boss and a SEMI flexible work week.....NOT an office job of course, since my artiste soul always dies a slow death during those spells of employment, but a nice cafe job, with a mom and pop type feel, and good tips, and good work ethic, but a kindhearted place that lets a girl switch her sched around when a wonderful opportunity in life presents itself (i.e. Yosemite, Glacier National Park, my brother's awesome play in Los Angeles, weddings of dear friends). I just don't get the mindset when you have a gaggle of hardworking employees that are perfectly willing to trade shifts and such but the boss JUST DOESN'T LIKE IT for no good reason other than they are jealous that their employees actually care less about making money than they do and therefore have awesome life experiences where they see bountiful lands and meet amazing people instead of bringing home brand new thousand dollar couches. It's SO ANNOYING! Even though working at Kaido for 2 and 1/2 years was KINDOF like enrolling in a Japanese military, at least Kazu was extremely cool about realizing that his workers HAVE A LIFE!!!

Nuff said about that. Anyhow, due to my employment dilemma, to many disheartening interviews/ resume hand-ins with not so much as a CALL BACK, and to a deepening desire to be productive in my life, I have decided to re-enlist in SCHOOL!!!! Yikesers! College! Scheduled classes! Grades, hand-outs, homework, mid-terms!!! It's not something I would have expected so soon, but I did think I had it coming, because you see I have an awfully happy interest in all things web design and website-creating and I knew that at some point I HAD TO LEARN MORE. So I am taking 4 classes. 3 of them are web-publishing based. Intro classes to Adobe InDesign, Dreamweaver, and basic HTML. The other one is more for fun and debate and it is a class called Race, Ethnicity, and Inequality in the United States...a prime time to be taking such a forum. And though all these classes seem like candy to a baby right NOW, I know myself, and I know myself too well. I have a HORRENDOUS track record when it comes to schooling. Not grade school or high school, but almost ALL of my community college experience. Most of my past grades are Ws (for withdrawals) but there are also some Ds and Fs involved! As well as As, Bs, and Cs! Help! I never was a terrible student (I like to think I'm smart as a whip) it's just that semester after semester (mostly pre-2000) I would enroll in a class, attend for PRACTICALLY the entire semester, be getting an A, and then drop out in the last 2 weeks. Teachers HATE that. If they are nice they will give you an I. But if they aren't stoked on your sudden flakiness, they tend to dish out Fs. But for me, it really just has to be something about the 3 1/2 month stretch of routine classes being exactly 2 weeks too long. But hey.....that was the old me. Last time I took classes was 2005. I finished ONE of my THREE classes. The class I finished (and Aced) was Tapdancing. Yikes....how sad is that? But, it was a different time in my life. I was still a kid. Unmarried. For years I only kept a job for 8 months at a time. I lived in 22 different houses between ages 20-30, no joking. Talk about non-committal! Since then, so much has changed. I have a husband. I have PETS! I water my plants until the rains come. I don't ditch out on a town every 6 months. This time, I am COMMITTED. If I have any inklings that I am not gonna finish a class, I will drop the damn thing in time to not have it go down in forever-history with my already-horrible transcripts! There!

So, school, here I come. And because I have no corporations or Japanese traditions to kiss the ass of anymore, I put STREAKS in the hair! Blue and pink. I kept singin' the My Little Pony theme song the whole next day after I did it. It looks a little bit ridiculous, but I don't give. I am OVER people telling me to cover up my tattoos or to wear my hair simple and plain. I love my tattoos and I AM NOT SIMPLE OR PLAIN and I NEVER WILL BE!!! Hah!!! I can't wait til my friends my age own all the businesses!



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