What the 2009!?
Thats right, this year has started off on the right food. It is official, i woke up on the right side of the bed. Its true, things are looking up. Ok thats what i got.
Actually, funny thing is... i am currently locked out of my place. Which is why i can afford the time to write about how things are going swell. Kind of Ironic... just a little though.
Yeah, so i am thinking its going to be a great year. I have been on this huge high. Work has been strangely harder than usual lately. But thats ok, because after next week i will be on a 4 week tour of the east side. The east side of our country that is. Yes, i will be visiting the following locations: DC, Philadelphia, NY, and Boston. I will be seeing the following favorites in the near future: Irene Jagala, Jess Gomez, Emily Skaja, Maggie Yonkers, Patt Wood, and Tobi Erner. These are some pretty fantastic people, so i am pumped. I will also be witnessing Obama's Inauguration and probably a lot of binge drinking around the same time. I haven't decided what museum i want to do in dc. I am pretty sure i want to do the American Portraits Museum! Pretty sure.... Anyway, all this talk of the future. How about the present...
Well.... not too much to say. Grad School ap is in. Im not confident in it. The GRE score is certainly not up to par... and one of my professors for reasons i have yet to discern has not sent my Recommendation yet (EVEN THOUGH! he was the first one to reply to me, to say that he would write me a recommendation... weird... It makes me super anxious actually... WTF dude?) BUT! It is done. I said i would do it and i did. And it might not be the best... it probably isnt, but i did it, like i said i would. IT WAS expensive! Really, i had to ask my Mom for the Last 20 that i needed to pay to have a transcript sent. I felt so lame... but i had only $4 in my account!
I retrieved my Mo-Ped which was being held hostage for the fee of $50. It took some convincing by Tom Bligh to get me to finally pay the money to get it (i can tell you the story if you want, but not here. not here). So it is pretty damaged, but it is now a new Winter Project. Learning to do some serious Moped Repair.
So there is that. What else? Well, i havent decided what the amazing thing i will do this summer is going to be... but i am shooting for some serious amazing. If i get into grad school it will likely be 1 to 2 months of disappearing. If i dont... then it might be some ordinary length of amazing.
So my commitments for 2009 include but are not limmited to:
~ Repair Moped myself
~ Sell Car
~ Get rid of ALL credit card debt
~ Go on a Long BIKE RIDE
~ Maybe.... buy a motorcycle
~ Get a tattoo (i already know what i want....)
~ Re-apply for Grad-school if necessary (take if much more seriously)
~ Look really fabulous. This is probably the last time i will have so much time at my disposal to exercise and such... so i am going to really see what i can do....
~ Get really fucking good at pool.
~~~~ But here is the real goal of 2009! ~~~~
Truly indulge my creative side. I never do this. For a multitude of reasons. I have always fearing critique of my creative expressions... i dont know why... I truly admire, poets, artists, actors, musicians... they are able to go on a limb that I cant seem to push myself to. And i get frustrated, cause i see the work they do... and it resonate, i want to be PART of it... not just a by-stander. And who knows, maybe i will be no good. THATS OK! The point is, i have never really tried.
The other reason i have never done this is because i simply have never had time... or rather left time for artistic expression. AND, i have time now, now more than ever. Here are some of the projects:
~ Working on Sketching and pencil to paper work. Do a project that explore the human body and celebrity recognition.
~ Learn water color. Make a small cohesive collection.
~ (with the help of tom) Make a Cigar Box drawing shelving unit.
~ Learn to play the Ukulele
~ HOPEFULLY! get a Banjo!
~ Perform as a part of a music group.
~ Write a couple opinion piece i am proud of. Including a piece on the (possible) misuse of the energy, naiveté, and optimism of recent college grads in the non-profit do-gooder sector. (this will be a critique of organizations like the one i am working for... and how they take this work force and squeeze the energy out them till they quit... ANd also about a couple other things that is part of that world...
~ I will submit the afore mentioned piece to a couple national Zines and maybe some counter-culture blogs.
!!!! OK !!!! This is plenty.
2009 i am going to own you real hard. Right now, i don't see anything slowing me down. perhaps if i do in fact get a letter that says i don't make it into Grad-school ill probably need a couple weeks to re-coup from that blow... but, we will see when i get there!
Ok, people. I hope you have some dreams, aspirations. Every passing minute is another chance to turn it all around.
Finally, here is this.
Actually, funny thing is... i am currently locked out of my place. Which is why i can afford the time to write about how things are going swell. Kind of Ironic... just a little though.
Yeah, so i am thinking its going to be a great year. I have been on this huge high. Work has been strangely harder than usual lately. But thats ok, because after next week i will be on a 4 week tour of the east side. The east side of our country that is. Yes, i will be visiting the following locations: DC, Philadelphia, NY, and Boston. I will be seeing the following favorites in the near future: Irene Jagala, Jess Gomez, Emily Skaja, Maggie Yonkers, Patt Wood, and Tobi Erner. These are some pretty fantastic people, so i am pumped. I will also be witnessing Obama's Inauguration and probably a lot of binge drinking around the same time. I haven't decided what museum i want to do in dc. I am pretty sure i want to do the American Portraits Museum! Pretty sure.... Anyway, all this talk of the future. How about the present...
Well.... not too much to say. Grad School ap is in. Im not confident in it. The GRE score is certainly not up to par... and one of my professors for reasons i have yet to discern has not sent my Recommendation yet (EVEN THOUGH! he was the first one to reply to me, to say that he would write me a recommendation... weird... It makes me super anxious actually... WTF dude?) BUT! It is done. I said i would do it and i did. And it might not be the best... it probably isnt, but i did it, like i said i would. IT WAS expensive! Really, i had to ask my Mom for the Last 20 that i needed to pay to have a transcript sent. I felt so lame... but i had only $4 in my account!
I retrieved my Mo-Ped which was being held hostage for the fee of $50. It took some convincing by Tom Bligh to get me to finally pay the money to get it (i can tell you the story if you want, but not here. not here). So it is pretty damaged, but it is now a new Winter Project. Learning to do some serious Moped Repair.
So there is that. What else? Well, i havent decided what the amazing thing i will do this summer is going to be... but i am shooting for some serious amazing. If i get into grad school it will likely be 1 to 2 months of disappearing. If i dont... then it might be some ordinary length of amazing.
So my commitments for 2009 include but are not limmited to:
~ Repair Moped myself
~ Sell Car
~ Get rid of ALL credit card debt
~ Go on a Long BIKE RIDE
~ Maybe.... buy a motorcycle
~ Get a tattoo (i already know what i want....)
~ Re-apply for Grad-school if necessary (take if much more seriously)
~ Look really fabulous. This is probably the last time i will have so much time at my disposal to exercise and such... so i am going to really see what i can do....
~ Get really fucking good at pool.
~~~~ But here is the real goal of 2009! ~~~~
Truly indulge my creative side. I never do this. For a multitude of reasons. I have always fearing critique of my creative expressions... i dont know why... I truly admire, poets, artists, actors, musicians... they are able to go on a limb that I cant seem to push myself to. And i get frustrated, cause i see the work they do... and it resonate, i want to be PART of it... not just a by-stander. And who knows, maybe i will be no good. THATS OK! The point is, i have never really tried.
The other reason i have never done this is because i simply have never had time... or rather left time for artistic expression. AND, i have time now, now more than ever. Here are some of the projects:
~ Working on Sketching and pencil to paper work. Do a project that explore the human body and celebrity recognition.
~ Learn water color. Make a small cohesive collection.
~ (with the help of tom) Make a Cigar Box drawing shelving unit.
~ Learn to play the Ukulele
~ HOPEFULLY! get a Banjo!
~ Perform as a part of a music group.
~ Write a couple opinion piece i am proud of. Including a piece on the (possible) misuse of the energy, naiveté, and optimism of recent college grads in the non-profit do-gooder sector. (this will be a critique of organizations like the one i am working for... and how they take this work force and squeeze the energy out them till they quit... ANd also about a couple other things that is part of that world...
~ I will submit the afore mentioned piece to a couple national Zines and maybe some counter-culture blogs.
!!!! OK !!!! This is plenty.
2009 i am going to own you real hard. Right now, i don't see anything slowing me down. perhaps if i do in fact get a letter that says i don't make it into Grad-school ill probably need a couple weeks to re-coup from that blow... but, we will see when i get there!
Ok, people. I hope you have some dreams, aspirations. Every passing minute is another chance to turn it all around.
Finally, here is this.