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Conundrum of Conformity

20th November, 2004. 7:18 pm. Revelations of a Wondrous Nature

Well, its a good thing this wasn't a paper journal I was trying to keep. I would have completely lost the book by now, and confused the generations to come by the sudden lapse in time. I can hear them wondering now, "Wait... where did 3-4 months go? Were the pages stolen or destroyed?" which would of course lead them on a merry chase of full fledged Holmesian detective work to attempt to determine where the time went.

Let me save them the time. I've been busy. I've been dealing and I've been learning. July was a month of pushing hard on the work front, emailing and faxing resumes everywhere, filling out near endless piles of applications. July was a carry-over from June in regards to that. August brought the start of the fall semester rushing closer, and no matter how prepared you think you are once the first day of classes comes you soon realize that you are just as unprepared as the day you entered the first grade.

August and September rolled into one as I began to balance actually going to classes with actually doing homework, and playing the MMORPGs I love so much. I continued to job hunt, but on a smaller more focused scale. The most important two situations that helped focus my life to where it is now were mid-terms and my monologue.

I'm enrolled in Introduction to Theater, a beginning General Education type course. I absolutely adore my professor, Michelle Gaines and value both her expertise of theater and her personal advice. She has accepted me for who I am from day one explaining my situation to her. The first few weeks in her class, she kept making suggestions to the entire class about extra credit work they could do and it wasn't until I saw her during her office hours that my own extra credit attempt coalesced into a solid form. I would to a monologue about my own life, and why I was presently at the stage that I'm at now. This idea came at the end of September and it took me until the middle of October for my mind to work on just a few phrases. Then The Muse called.

From there it was a swiftly forming swirl of words and emotions, and I was completed with my task. Then it became a matter of drafting an actual working script.... I was finally completed less than 1 week before my performance. http://www.geocities.com/lizorss/monologue.doc To read at your leisure...

Suddenly, things changed for me. Instead of being a guarded person, always looking over my shoulder I felt relaxed as if a great weight had been lifted from my shoulders. That tension may have been what was keeping me from landing any decent job because as of this last Wednesday, I'M EMPLOYED!!

I am a part time employee at Ulta and starting tomorrow I'll be working roughly 28 hours each week. Ulta is a make up retailer and they hired LAYNA!!

I'm being distracted by friends on IRC, so I'll just quickly close this out. I have a couple other topics in my head I may get to before I go to bed tonight.

Current mood: content.
Current music: all things techno-ish.

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