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The Plan

I have made a plan. I like my plan. I know life will probably screw with my plan because that is what life does.

Everyone knows I want to teach in American Samoa for a year. I would leave in a year. In that year, I would like to find a job and work really hard to save money. I plan to finally actually take steps to get healthier. I want to get my stuff in order to be packed and stored for a year and I want to write as much as possible. What I do not plan for nor want is a relationship.

This isn’t some over emotional declaration of swearing of the male gender forever. I like men and some men I like a really lot. I plan on trying the whole dating thing again when I get back. I just don’t see the point in working to find a relationship when I am working to be gone on a year long adventure.  As Spock (the new hot one, not Leonard Nimoy) would say, that is just not logical. Besides, I am a bit crazy right now and maybe that isn’t the best state to start a relationship.

So moving along, the plan after I get home from my fabulous year in Samoa is to come home and find some job in Oklahoma City or Norman. I know I should feel pickier about it but I am going to set my sights on anything that pays me enough to live and doesn’t make me hate my life. I want to get a really crappy apartment in a neighborhood in which I worry about getting shot whilst going out to my car. It will be my crappy apartment and I will have bookshelves for all of my crazy lady books and comfortable ugly furniture. It will have a great bathtub though. It might have a vermin issue but it would have the sexiest internet in the history of internet in shitty apartment.

In my crappy apartment with fantastic internet I probably won’t have a T.V. I will have awesome computers. I am going to have a gigantic monitor. I don’t need a T.V if I have a great computer, sexy internet, and a gigantic monitor. Also, a comfortable computer chair is a must. I want a desk with many cubbyholes and places to stash the evidence of my office supply obsession. I will have a crazy comfortable chair with a lamp beside it so I have a great reading spot. I am probably going to give in and buy some sort of e-reader. I love books, real paper books, but they take up so much room and it is far easier to get e-books. Also, I am going to have a guinea pig or chinchilla. I am going to name it something highly ridiculous and take pictures of it and post them on Facebook. I will blog about it like it is some sad child stand in.

I am going to find a cafe or bookstore to visit every week and sit there and drink coffee and write on my laptop like I am something awesome. Some days I might just sit there and drink over priced fancy coffee and play Zuma. I will find some sort of club or group to get involved with but not a writer’s group because some other writers drive me insane. I don’t want to ever be around someone who wears a vest and calls himself a “word smyth.” There would be tremendous amounts of mocking and maybe a little violence.

This is my dream. It is a small dream but I am pretty in love with it. Let us see how it plays out.

 
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*Brain Esplodes*

I like to think of myself as someone who boldly goes forth in search of what she wants and smiles and makes friends easily. I have a feeling that the truth is closer to me being a homebody that allows herself to settle into something comfortable and safe. I think I remember being bolder, funnier, and less concerned about comfort. After the break-up, I got to seriously looking at who I am and what I want and I decided I need to change things around.

First off, I cancelled my WoW account. I am not one of those people who believes World of Warcraft ruined my life. My life isn’t anywhere near ruined and I am responsible for the state it is in. I circled far into myself and let myself lose bits of me. World of Warcraft made it easier because it offered a diversion and socialization. I am still gaming but I am playing Rift instead. I am working on the premise that it won’t be as all consuming as WoW. If it turns out to be, I hope I see it and am able to fix it.

I have also decided to start my application process for WorldTeach to teach in American Samoa for a year. There is a lot to do for it. I need two references, three short essays, my transcripts, and an interview. The essays are only two to three hundred words which isn’t difficult in itself but I am going to take my time and write them thoughtfully with several drafts. I am probably going to ask someone else to read them since I have the tendency to not see my own mistakes. (Hmm, imagine that, me blind to my own mistakes.) I have asked one of my references to be a reference for me and I need to contact the other. I have ordered my transcript.  I will think about the interview later.

I need a job. The WorldTeach program requires a two thousand dollar deposit and I think a job would be good for me. Lets be honest here. I can write with a job. I can do all the other stuff I want with a job. I need a job.  I don’t know what kind of job I want since I think it would be inopportune to start a career job, so I am just going to look around, no fast food though. I need to write a resume. I hate writing resumes. I hate writing resumes more than I hate strep throat. Very soon I will sit down and write one. I promise. Holy smokes, I hate writing resumes.

I was looking for a different theme for my site through the WordPress selections and I realized yet another thing I need to do, I need to work on learning website design. I actually really enjoy it and I think I could be really good at it. I just need to do it.

I am also considering stopping writing with a theme. Five full months of theme blogs should prove I can do it. I miss my old blogging style and I have gotten enough in the habit of blogging on a set schedule that I think I can come up with things to write about without a theme. Any thoughts?

Okay I am ending this post now before it becomes even more of a strange Woody Allen neurotic rant. I owe that to the world.

 
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