In which I take a bold step sideways
"Les temps sont durs pour les rêveurs."
~Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain
The sun came out for a whole three days this week and I feel lethargy beginning to nestle inside of me. It's a stupid thing, and I don't quite understand why I get depressed during the spring. Shouldn't I be rejuvenated with new life? I'm attempting to ward off the feeling with a weird, lengthy post of randomness. It's not entirely serious though, I don't think I'm capable of that.
I had my birthday a little over a month ago, my 25th. I began to do something I have never tried to do before, think about THE FUTURE. Ugh... god, I can barely type those words, it's such a foreign thing. I can't decide what to drink when I go out to eat, much less make a choice for my entire life. But now, oh no... I feel like I should get my butt into gear and figure out what to do with my life. *sigh*
I know this might be a surprise to some of you since I don't really talk about it, but I don't have a degree in anything. I'm college educated, but quite frankly, that means shit. I started out as an Education major, then switched to French, then to English. I stopped going when I started thinking about culinary school, and I couldn't justify racking up anymore school loans. It doesn't help either, when your guidance counselor tells you to your face that you don't know what sort of work you could find with said degree. Education is going through some funky reforms, crappy teachers stick around but quality teachers are fired because of union rules and tight budgets. I didn't know what the hell I wanted to do with French. And everytime people heard I was in English they asked if I was going to be a teacher. *Face to Palm*
Which brings me to the quote from Amelie. Translation: "Times are hard for dreamers."
The only thing I have every had complete control of was my imagination. I vaguely remember a time when I had She-Ra ride a My Little Pony into the deep cavern of my closet to fight off a giant stuffed dinosaur in order to rescue the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. I've always embraced my imagination and the trippy random thoughts that pop into my head. I don't want to be tagged with a specific degree because I don't want people thinking I am incapable of doing anything else. I like trying new hobbies and failing at them. I like having tiny piles of knowledge in my head so I know just enough to relate to a person, but still have that eye-opening experince of learning something new.
So I'm going to do a bit a dreaming. I'm going to finish my Nano and actually try to go somewhere with it. And I'm going to post in the future with a tag I'm calling "Professional Amateur." It's just going to be a dump of things that I have learned or tried. I don't know how often it will be, but I think it might be a bit of fun for this journal since I don't really meme.
Here are some facts about the Dust Bowl from a documentary I watched a few days ago:
1. The Dust Bowl occurred in the Unites States concurrent with it's Great Depression during the 1930s.
2. It was a man-made disaster, caused by farmers who dug up the prairie grass, never realizing that it was designed to hold the earth in place when wind patterns shifted the rain south.
3. The dust storms would last anywhere from a couple of hours to a few days
4. People died because their lungs would fill with sand since the dust was everywhere. They called it Dust Pneumonia
5. During Black Sunday, a dust storm grew so large that it traveled a thousand miles to Washington DC.
6. The Dust Bowl had side effects other that flying sand. It caused a jack rabbit epidemic and swarms of locusts when their natural predators left the area. The flying sand in the air would hit the automobiles,the static would charge higher and higher until electrocution by car was a real fear.
7. Six tons of earth was removed from the ground for every person living in the US during Black Sunday.
Here be your knowledge. I think I'm going to bake something next time.
~Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain
The sun came out for a whole three days this week and I feel lethargy beginning to nestle inside of me. It's a stupid thing, and I don't quite understand why I get depressed during the spring. Shouldn't I be rejuvenated with new life? I'm attempting to ward off the feeling with a weird, lengthy post of randomness. It's not entirely serious though, I don't think I'm capable of that.
I had my birthday a little over a month ago, my 25th. I began to do something I have never tried to do before, think about THE FUTURE. Ugh... god, I can barely type those words, it's such a foreign thing. I can't decide what to drink when I go out to eat, much less make a choice for my entire life. But now, oh no... I feel like I should get my butt into gear and figure out what to do with my life. *sigh*
I know this might be a surprise to some of you since I don't really talk about it, but I don't have a degree in anything. I'm college educated, but quite frankly, that means shit. I started out as an Education major, then switched to French, then to English. I stopped going when I started thinking about culinary school, and I couldn't justify racking up anymore school loans. It doesn't help either, when your guidance counselor tells you to your face that you don't know what sort of work you could find with said degree. Education is going through some funky reforms, crappy teachers stick around but quality teachers are fired because of union rules and tight budgets. I didn't know what the hell I wanted to do with French. And everytime people heard I was in English they asked if I was going to be a teacher. *Face to Palm*
Which brings me to the quote from Amelie. Translation: "Times are hard for dreamers."
The only thing I have every had complete control of was my imagination. I vaguely remember a time when I had She-Ra ride a My Little Pony into the deep cavern of my closet to fight off a giant stuffed dinosaur in order to rescue the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. I've always embraced my imagination and the trippy random thoughts that pop into my head. I don't want to be tagged with a specific degree because I don't want people thinking I am incapable of doing anything else. I like trying new hobbies and failing at them. I like having tiny piles of knowledge in my head so I know just enough to relate to a person, but still have that eye-opening experince of learning something new.
So I'm going to do a bit a dreaming. I'm going to finish my Nano and actually try to go somewhere with it. And I'm going to post in the future with a tag I'm calling "Professional Amateur." It's just going to be a dump of things that I have learned or tried. I don't know how often it will be, but I think it might be a bit of fun for this journal since I don't really meme.
Here are some facts about the Dust Bowl from a documentary I watched a few days ago:
1. The Dust Bowl occurred in the Unites States concurrent with it's Great Depression during the 1930s.
2. It was a man-made disaster, caused by farmers who dug up the prairie grass, never realizing that it was designed to hold the earth in place when wind patterns shifted the rain south.
3. The dust storms would last anywhere from a couple of hours to a few days
4. People died because their lungs would fill with sand since the dust was everywhere. They called it Dust Pneumonia
5. During Black Sunday, a dust storm grew so large that it traveled a thousand miles to Washington DC.
6. The Dust Bowl had side effects other that flying sand. It caused a jack rabbit epidemic and swarms of locusts when their natural predators left the area. The flying sand in the air would hit the automobiles,the static would charge higher and higher until electrocution by car was a real fear.
7. Six tons of earth was removed from the ground for every person living in the US during Black Sunday.
Here be your knowledge. I think I'm going to bake something next time.