I've got my philosophy
So it's been about forever since I last posted. One whole month since my last post of actually content. I suppose that's fair enough, as I haven't had a link to this LJ in my profile for almost 4 weeks so the only people who would read my posts anyway are the few of you out in LJ-land already. Now, thanks to the beauty of boredom and an extra hour of night due to Daylight Savings Time, it's bitch time.
I've been busy the past few weeks. First off in terms of school, I had to finish my papers for my study abroad course on October 15th. As I am wont to do I was writing through 5 pm on the 15th, but I got them done and ended up with an A- in the course. Also the weeks of the 4th and 11th I had multiple midterms. I'm proud to say I did well on them but they nonetheless occupied a great deal of time. On top of this, my psycho bitch of a landlord was harassing myself and the roommates about our security deposits and replacing the basement paneling. Basically she demanded a new $1100 security deposit on top of the $1000 deposit from last year and refused to give us back last year's deposit until the basement wall was fixed, even though she told us a few months prior that we would have until the end of this year's lease to do the repairs. There was a lot of arguing and confusion until I went and got my dad (a lawyer) involved, so now things have calmed down and she's stopped trying to strong-arm us.
I've come to realize that my decision to take a year off before graduate school to take an internship in the museum field was not a good one. First off, many internship programs, especially at my dream institutions like the National Gallery of Art, require a) that the intern be currently pursuing their master's degree, and b) a level of foreign language (French, German, and/or Dutch) comprehension that I simply do not have. I mean, I'm a senior in college and I don't even have a resume. I'm looking into taking the GRE and possibly starting graduate school in spring 2006. I'm not sure where I would go other than Maryland. I'd want to stay in the area regardless. Sometimes lately I've surprised myself in terms of how much I've gotten into art history as a major and as a career opportunity. At least that's good. Too bad I couldn't have picked a higher paying profession.
This year for my birthday I didn't ask for any presents. Instead I asked my friends to donate money to the Children's Hospital in DC or the Lance Armstrong Foundation. Yeah it's a little sanctimonious and pretentious, but this year I honestly could not think of what I wanted for my birthday and the idea of asking people to donate money to charity instead is something I've batted around for a while, to tell the truth. I got a couple of people to go ahead and give money to Children's and in all seriousness, that about made my day. Nothing like a little altruism to brighten one's day.
The MD-FSU football game tonight was probably the most exciting sporting event I've ever witnessed in person.
On top of the aforementioned things, a constant source of annoyance/lameness is my constant lack of any motion at all in my love life. Not that I really have any basis for complaining because I never make any attempts to remedy my situation, but living with another sad sack in Dan makes for many conversations along the lines of 'man, we suck.' Add to that mix Kristjan, who by all means should be a sad sack but instead has a girlfriend who he talks with on his cell phone every freaking minute of the day and it can be troublesome. Dan and I had an extremely amusing conversation a few nights ago about our relationships and lack thereof. Went off on some tangents that are highly inappropriate for this forum. I can't speak for Dan, who's got a litany of his own problem sI'm sure, but I simply am not a social creature. I don't like going to parties or going out of my way to meet new people. It's a big fault but I'm not going to shake myself from it anytime soon. I also don't drink, which makes bar and party situations that much more unbearable. It is incredibly hard to find a smart and attractive college girl who doesn't care if you don't want to go out every night. Good thing I've been working on that tortured artist mindset for years now, I almost look forward to the boringness. Now if only I were an artist...
Well I thought about the army
Dad said, "Son, you're fucking high"
And I thought, yeah there's a first for everything
So I took my old man's advice
Three sad semesters
It was only fifteen grand
I thought about the army
I dropped out and joined a band instead
I've been busy the past few weeks. First off in terms of school, I had to finish my papers for my study abroad course on October 15th. As I am wont to do I was writing through 5 pm on the 15th, but I got them done and ended up with an A- in the course. Also the weeks of the 4th and 11th I had multiple midterms. I'm proud to say I did well on them but they nonetheless occupied a great deal of time. On top of this, my psycho bitch of a landlord was harassing myself and the roommates about our security deposits and replacing the basement paneling. Basically she demanded a new $1100 security deposit on top of the $1000 deposit from last year and refused to give us back last year's deposit until the basement wall was fixed, even though she told us a few months prior that we would have until the end of this year's lease to do the repairs. There was a lot of arguing and confusion until I went and got my dad (a lawyer) involved, so now things have calmed down and she's stopped trying to strong-arm us.
I've come to realize that my decision to take a year off before graduate school to take an internship in the museum field was not a good one. First off, many internship programs, especially at my dream institutions like the National Gallery of Art, require a) that the intern be currently pursuing their master's degree, and b) a level of foreign language (French, German, and/or Dutch) comprehension that I simply do not have. I mean, I'm a senior in college and I don't even have a resume. I'm looking into taking the GRE and possibly starting graduate school in spring 2006. I'm not sure where I would go other than Maryland. I'd want to stay in the area regardless. Sometimes lately I've surprised myself in terms of how much I've gotten into art history as a major and as a career opportunity. At least that's good. Too bad I couldn't have picked a higher paying profession.
This year for my birthday I didn't ask for any presents. Instead I asked my friends to donate money to the Children's Hospital in DC or the Lance Armstrong Foundation. Yeah it's a little sanctimonious and pretentious, but this year I honestly could not think of what I wanted for my birthday and the idea of asking people to donate money to charity instead is something I've batted around for a while, to tell the truth. I got a couple of people to go ahead and give money to Children's and in all seriousness, that about made my day. Nothing like a little altruism to brighten one's day.
The MD-FSU football game tonight was probably the most exciting sporting event I've ever witnessed in person.
On top of the aforementioned things, a constant source of annoyance/lameness is my constant lack of any motion at all in my love life. Not that I really have any basis for complaining because I never make any attempts to remedy my situation, but living with another sad sack in Dan makes for many conversations along the lines of 'man, we suck.' Add to that mix Kristjan, who by all means should be a sad sack but instead has a girlfriend who he talks with on his cell phone every freaking minute of the day and it can be troublesome. Dan and I had an extremely amusing conversation a few nights ago about our relationships and lack thereof. Went off on some tangents that are highly inappropriate for this forum. I can't speak for Dan, who's got a litany of his own problem sI'm sure, but I simply am not a social creature. I don't like going to parties or going out of my way to meet new people. It's a big fault but I'm not going to shake myself from it anytime soon. I also don't drink, which makes bar and party situations that much more unbearable. It is incredibly hard to find a smart and attractive college girl who doesn't care if you don't want to go out every night. Good thing I've been working on that tortured artist mindset for years now, I almost look forward to the boringness. Now if only I were an artist...
Well I thought about the army
Dad said, "Son, you're fucking high"
And I thought, yeah there's a first for everything
So I took my old man's advice
Three sad semesters
It was only fifteen grand
I thought about the army
I dropped out and joined a band instead