Apr 23 2009
Passer By
Tomorrow I leave!
Long road trip of doom and peril… I think I’ll enjoy it. I’ve always liked road trips, all that time to sit and do basically nothing. Hey, it’ll give me lots of time to read and write, and catch up on my favorite kids movies. Because I’ll be most of the time squashed between two child seats, with the dvd player in my face, probably with kung fu panda or madagascar showcasing. But it will be nice to have the trip, because when I come back, I will be thrown into work, no exceptions, no breaks, and certainly no sanity. I wont even get paid for te first month, it’s a ‘free labor’ internship.
Not looking forward to that as much. people ask me if I’m excited to enter this ‘new chapter in my life’ and I’m like… what new chapter? I have to wake up too early, get dressed, go pretend that it doesn’t bother me to play nice with an idiot bossing me around, and get nothing from it for a while. Hell, I’ve been doing that my whole life. This isn’t even a prologue, or a dress rehersal. Just same ol same ol. Leaving one hellacious pit of despair for another. So no, I’m not excited.
What I am excited about is getting back into a REAL school. This fall I’m going back to community college, and taking the classes that I want to take rather than ones I have to. See, if I’m a full time student, I get insurance through my step dad’s work. Win win situation. It’s not like it’s been a decade since I’ve been in real school, as opposed to vocational school. Only about a year. And yet I miss it like a phantom limb.
Yeah, today apparently I’m extra dramatic. Maybe I always was, and only became aware of it today. :) Writer’s syndrome.
Prompt:
Sometimes the best thing for reducing stress is to take the time to identify it. I’m not saying writers are the least stressed people you ever met, in fact probably not. What I mean is that daily journal writing can clear your head, by at least identifying some of the issues cluttering your brain. Like the scientific method, a question (or problem) must be stated before one can solve it.
So I put forth that whoever reads this should start a daily PERSONAL journal. Blogs are good too, but you don’t write down everything in a blog. Not the things you’re keeping to yourself, and those are probably the things you’ll need to write about most.
