My new website is so cool I spend hours upon hours every minute just staring at the screen. Really. I haven’t eaten in 3 days. It’s so totally awesome I want to put on the soundtrack to Caddyshack and pee myself. Don’t YOU want to stare at it too?
Phat exp
Aragorn: What do you fear, my lady?
Eowyn: A cage. To stay behind bars until use and old age accept them.
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
This scene was especially powerful for me. It exemplifies the way I feel about the corporate 9 to 5 exp grind. Regular readers of this site will not see this as a surprise. I’ve lived that life before when I lived in SoCal, and I don’t ever want to do it again.
There has to be more to life than work. Human beings were not meant to live like this. We pack together like sardines in our cities and live like rats in a cage. Any semblance of freedom is thrown to the wind while we sit in our SUVs for 3 hours a day in traffic. We sit in our little cubicles like lab rats for a good 9 hours a day behind an electronic portal to the world. In this economy we are so worried about keeping our jobs we work longer than we are asked, daily, and perhaps weekends.
How many of you would like to feel the wind on your face or the warmth of the sun while you work? How many of you feel that your chosen profession is really making a difference in the world? Are you making people’s lives better? Are you contributing to humanity?
I don’t have all the answers. In fact, I have very few. All I know is what I know: I can’t go back to that life. What the future holds for me is yet to be seen.
I don’t have a plan, I’m just making it up as I go.
Almost there…
Two weeks down. Thirteen weeks of instruction, one week of Spring Break, and one week of finals to go.
And already I’m behind in my reading. My English teacher dropped an essay on us today, due monday of course. My Religious Studies professor dropped a pop quiz on us today. It’s an online quiz that I have until Sunday to complete. Next Friday I’ve got 2 papers due and another project. So, do you miss college yet?
I’m filled with a mixture of joy and dread regarding graduation. My life for the last 3 years has been so ridiculously easy. I’ve been out there in the real world. It sucks, I hate it. College rocks dude. Oh well, I always knew it couldn’t last forever.