Blew Through It!

I took my midterm on Monday, and I got a 93 on it! I tied the high scorer in the morning class, and we had the highest scores in the class! I have a 96.87 at midterm overall, so I'm pretty happy about it. Thought I'd brag about it just a little bit. 'Cause what's the use of good grades if you can't brag about them?

Coffee Trumps Dissent Every Time

So I head into Starbucks for a grande cup of their magnificent caramel apple cider, and it gets me to thinking. Being a child of the 90's, the automatic response is an iconoclastic avoidance of the mass culture that such "hip and trendy" yuppie paradises as Starbucks used to represent. Then I reminded myself that I do in fact consider myself a capitalist, am in no way an activist or of an anti-cultural vein, and that my intended profession includes designing corporate identities for big businesses and brands just like the world's most familiar coffeehouse. Thus began and ended my one and only extremely minor excursion into cultural dissonance. I guess there's just not a liberal bone in my body. And I really need a white chocolate mocha latte, cause I'm not nearly jittery enough.

Long Distance Friendships

It's amazing how you can be 500 miles away from people and still feel close to them. Some of the people I'm happy to call my friends have both distance and years between us, and yet, the past doesn't matter anymore. The friendship is what matters these days, as it should have long ago. Mistakes that seemed to ruin relationships back then now seem trivial and asinine. Thank God we don't keep the high school drama mentality for our entire lives. Society would be even more trivial and materialistic than it already is.
Reuniting via the internet, many old friends have become new ones, with lives as exotic and amazing as mine often isn't. One of my new old friends is a missionary working in China; another works in D.C. and travels the world. One is going through a divorce, another just graduated from college. My brother-in-law, also a friend from high school days, is having to change route sales jobs as often as underwear. None of us, I'm sure, dreamed our lives would be the way they are now.
But through our disparate, distanced existences, we somehow reconnected; the wonders of myspace, i suppose, and the internet's ability to do something other than browse porn.
I'm grateful for my friendships I've developed, and redeveloped online. I needed someone to tke me 500 miles and ten years back to when life was less (and more) complicated. I think we all need that.

Already Garnering Attention

So I get to school early today to drop off my transcript from Devry University, and the receptionist looks at me kinda funny and says "Do you blog?"
"Yeah...." was my wary reply, because I know what a double edged sword a blog can be (see Dooce.) He doesn't miss a beat; "mr destructo...?"
"That would be me," and I'm sweating bullets because I've never met anyone who's even read my blog before, family excepted.
So He turns his monitor toward me, and lo and behold, it's my blog, which seems to have been making it's way around the school ALL DAY, and suddenly I'm known to a few of the faculty. I only hope I have nothing but good things to say about my wonderful college, because I may be tarred and feathered otherwise.
So, to all you new readers at Brown Mackie College- Louisville, my new and dear alma mater, I hope you continue reading my humble posts, and even the occasional comment would be nice. It's good to get noticed, even when it catches you off guard. Especially then.

Higher Education

My journey toward a higher education begins tomorrow, as I start my first class at Brown Mackie College - Louisville, a small but convenient technical college near work. At orientation on Thursday, I felt much more comfortable with the institution and my choice to study Graphic Design than I had originally. The staff truly seems to care about the students, and the curriculum is geared toward teaching the information that truly helps you in your career. You take one class, three nights a week, one a month, so it's full time; It just doesn't crowd your schedule like a traditional college. On around December 18, 2008, I'll have an associates degree in Graphic Design, and hopefully a way out of Ford Motor Company on my terms, not by being laid off. The unacceptability of being unemployed was what brought my family and I to Kentucky, and I don't plan to leave here without a plan and a purpose. If all goes well, we won't have to leave at all.