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Posted on 03/05/2005 11:51:13 AM PST by HairOfTheDog
New verse:
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Lots of us have ended up with lives a lot different than we thought when we were jen's age and so sure what we were gonna do... through choices, dead ends and a few compromises, we pick up a few things and sometimes we drop a few things along the way.
I went to school to fly airplanes. And I was good at it too... but I ended up quite a ways down a different path and had to decide to keep going or head back. I am really glad I learned to fly, sorry it cost my parents so much money, and I still have the hope that I can get and stay current enough one day to just have a really cool hobby. But I can't picture myself in the life I planned, as an airline pilot. I'm different now.
The new models are kinda spendy, maybe $400, but I think the other established models are coming down into more realistic range. And what with phone number portability now, you can move the old number to the new service.
I wanted to be an artist when I was five, but I can't draw, at all. Something about an inability to draw a straight line. So I'm gonna be a writer someday.... but to pay the bills, I got a real degree (plus, I didn't want to spend time around English majors and English professors.)
Morning all. I have one assignment to finish today and turn in, then I'm done for break.
Heh. I did two years as a music major at a community college before going to UofA. In the first sememster of Music Theory, there were a couple dozen students. By the end of the fourth semester, there two of us left in the program. The rest either decided they were not suited for it, or came to the realization that music is not a 'gimme' degree - it actually takes hard work and study.
"Good morning class... today's lesson will be The *Art* of War. We'll begin by... " :-)
Oh I know, I don't mean to be a downer about this. I'm not about to go out and buy a little red convertible (mainly because I couldn't get my fat@$$ into one), but then again I did buy a red truck...
I get tired of where I am sometimes (although there's potential for change). But I realize I've had an incredible journey in my career. And some of the places I've been and things I've been allowed to do can only be described as God's providence. I had eight incredible years in DC traveling the country and working indirectly with the White House, and CEOs from some of the major compaines in the US.
But along the way in my career, I've also escaped from a cult, survived cancer and two near fatal car crashes, survivived being fired from the same job ~twice~ and lived through almost losing my wife and child to high risk pregnancies ~twice~. So, I'm pretty grateful for where I am.
And, where I am currently is in a position that helps me pay the bills and support my family. It doesn't matter that I hate the job and would rather be almost anywhere else. I have obligations. And, for sure I get to do some fun stuff outside of that, particularly with the performing we get to do with the Music and Fine Arts ministry.
My need/desire for art and the whole creative process is not necssarily something that will make me rich or even support my family.
But it's something that's always been with me and that has been on a shelf for far too long. This is a re-awakening of that, and a realization that I shouldn't consider it gone. But I should find away to fit it into my life.
In my ~spare~ time.
Feel free! I found it on a website that has dozens of wav files from the movie.
more like, "tha *Art* of gralloching...
*ahem*
For example, in our logo graphic, I have layer sets for "foreground" (objects inside the hole) and "outside" (objects outside the door).
And yes, naming layers is VITAL... once you get more than two layers, it starts to get impossible to remember which layer is which object.
What? Most of 'em are loser liberal types. And none of the writers I like have degrees in any field related to writing, so it's obviously not a requirement...
I dunno...the English professors here are about the nicest faculty members around! I like it when I have to work on their computers. Plus they have actual INTERESTING stuff up on the wall...poetry and quotes from literature and such. And in general, they aren't the folks that call five minutes before a class hyperventilating because their power point presentation doesn't work...
Being in the music department was a real awakening for me.
In a small high school and in church I'd been a star. Had a director at a choral festival say "I've rarely heard such a clear tenor voice." So, I got to thinking that music was the route for me.
But I got to school and was thrown into a situation where everyone had been the star.
Then I did my audition for the music department. The first thing they said was "You're not a tenor."
It was downhill from there...
Yeah, you've got a different perspective on things! All the English professors I knew were raging libs who liked to make us read, say, Howard Zinn.
Speaking as someone who spent time as an English major, and as someone who married an English major who is now an English professor, I'd have to say that's an ignorant statement Jen.
In our small English/Speech group from my small Christian college we produced:
All conservative. None of them losers. And that's just from two graduating classes.
No, you don't need a degree in the field of writing to be a success. But you've got to have a bigger world view than you've yet exhibited.
Guess we're just lucky. Ours are nice!
It's the psychology and education folks that tend to have anti-Bush/socialist/anti-Christian stuff up on their doors.
Cool little toy...takes a few minutes to load, but very interesting, IMO:
Go to this site and type in your name, your kids names or anyone's name you wish and find out the popularity and ranking of any name over the years. It's pretty cool the way this works.
http://www.babynamewizard.com/namevoyager/lnv0105.html
Fix tagline...
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