It's the Small Things

I have about 15 minutes to get ready and get to work, so today's post will be short. I promise more scintillating posts later. Like tomorrow. Or whenever Comcast (Xfinity) chooses to grace me with the internet service I pay more than $100/month for.

Have you ever been in the bathroom and heard someone randomly giggling? Like there's something to giggle about in the bathroom. There's stalls, sometimes graffitti, underwear, a chance that mother nature gave you a gift (ladies), a fear of farting, some TP and not a whole lot else going on. Chances are if someone is giggling it is over a text message or it's me, laughing at something like this:

Haha, Hiney Hider, haha. Someone is funny in the marketing department.

Okay, hi ho, hi ho, it's off to work I go!

String Theory

I have long prescribed to the theory that life is a string of decisions. Surely, your life will go one way or another, be mostly bad or mostly good, but a lot of it depends on decisions. Decisions you make, your parents make, your grandparents make, you neighbor, government, phone company, friends, and random stranger make.

Lately I have been making bad decisions.

However, I did finish the term with a 3.72 GPA. The only class I got a B in was Economic Development. I got a B because I made a decision. I decided not to study - ever. Besides the 10 billion hour research paper that I wanted to stab my eyes out over, it worked out well for me.

But it was still a "bad" decision.

It was a bad decision that worked out well. Now, you tell me why I've been so confused about life lately? Looking at my life as an outsider things are gooooood. But I will be the first to tell you - my life right now is in shambles and I'm having a quarter-life crisis and day-by-day all I want to do is get up and disappear, go live in Greece or somewhere warm and sunny and be a day laborer.

So bad decisions that return good results may be bad decisions still. I mean, what makes a decision bad? The reason for making it or the outcome?

For instance: I'm in Central PA currently and this morning I had the newspaper with my Kashi cereal. The front page headlines are as follows: Buy Cooking Tickets for Some Class, Biden Swears on National Television, Three of My Classmates from Public School went to Jail, oh and yea, They Passed the Healthcare Bill.

Some of those are funny for obvious reasons (come on, who thought local cooking classes were more important than the Health bill which was passed awhile ago?) but three of my former classmates got arrested.

Mostly for burglary, assault, and drugs. Not the smartest people, not the smartest decisions.

I also found out two of my former co-workers (who were my age, one has a kid) got arrested and landed in jail - for drugs.

So, maybe the most important decision of my life was leaving this small town and getting out into the big city. And the next most important decision of my life may be moving out of Pennsylvania into the great unknown (read: West Coast/Europe/South America).

Or maybe the next big decision will be picking a career that won't suck. Who knows.

So what do you think? What makes a decision bad - the reason for making it or the outcome?

There's a light

At the end of this dark, dark tunnel. Finals are approaching. Or should I say final. Yea, that's right, I only have one!!

Unfortunately, I have about 10 hours of research to do. Tonight. Right now actually...

Sorry I've been slacking on the blog. Work has been killing me but I've been making lots of money!! It doesn't quite make up for the fact that I'm so tired I want to crawl into the fetal position in the bottom of a closet and stay there for a week, butttttttt at least I'm not broke. Yes - if I owe you money I'll pay you on Friday!

The real reason I've been slacking is the fact that my life is a mess right now. While I don't mind airing dirty laundry once in awhile, I'd at least like to gather it up first and figure out what still fits and what doesn't. In other words, I have a lot to blog about, but most is too personal, sappy, dirty, or just plain depressing. For me at least. You'd probably get a kick out of it!

Ahhh, I remember what I wanted to say! Winter has broken here in Philly!! It may be cold a few more days, but we had BEAUTIFUL weather the past few days and spring has definitely knocked on winter's door. As always, spring will win out in the end. And it brings me a small ray of hope. For something.

I think I'll buy skates.

But first, I need to do mounds of research for economics. If you need me, I'll be stabbing myself while sobbing uncontrollably over my laptop.

I'm not just slacking...

...my internet really hasn't been working lately. Why? Well, I have an oooollldddddd laptop. As old as father time. It's almost a preschooler - really. And the wireless card needs updated. Or some setting needs to be changed. Or something.

I took a class in computers once, no really I did....

End of story - something's messed up, and until I update my wireless card I can't do anything about it. So what I am doing with this precious sprig of internet time? I writing a blog post about how I can't write blog posts because my laptop is in it's terrible twos, threes, AND fours.

Also, I'm working approximately 40 hours a week and going to college full time. Last week I worked 46 hours. This week is 36. Next week is 40. I'm tired.

In the meantime, please visit http://envisioncolorcontest.com/gallery/entry/85 and vote for my friend to win. She is awesome, and she could really use the money - i.e. she works AND goes to school.

While I might have fixed the problem since I wrote this at 3:00 a.m. yesterday, it's still all true.

Kloveme.