Ok... updates on my life and then I'll get back into whatever blogs are meant to do.
1. I love my hall. I no longer hate them. 2nd North 4ever!
2. My car's registration has expired.
3. I quit my job at Gamestop. I now work at the APU Computer store.
4. I am staying in Azusa for the summer.
5. I am embarking on adding a minor in graphic design.
6. I have been trying to read more.
7. I drank alcohol for the very first time in my life!!! Big deal people! I went wine tasting over spring break with a family I met two days beforehand. And then continued to drive quad bikes and shoot squirrels the rest of the day.
8. Still living up the single life and doing well in it.
9. My current favorite movie is Fantastic Mr. Fox.
10. My favorite band is tied between Manchester Orchestra, The Fleet Foxes, and Ra Ra Riot.
11. I only got to go snowboarding once this year, due to a pleasing injury on my second run. Sadly, my goal of doing a backflip was not met.
12. I have gained over 10 pounds. Now my jeans that I just got this last winter are already too small.
13. Have not read Hunger Games. Neither have I seen the movie.
Anyway, there is so much I can write about tonight, and I have no idea really what I want to say. I felt bad for leaving Blogger so suddenly and not recording any of my life for my faithful stalkers out there. I guess this last winter and spring was really tough on me. Lot of good and bad things happen. But now, I am loving where I am at so that is good.
I took a May term class. Intro to Literature to be exact. I had Dr. Kristen Sipper, and plainly, she was quite a character. Her sense of humor was really funny but only a few students really understood half of it because her jokes tended to require some sort of analysis. They always involved a random pun or the satirizing of a public figure or group of people. I thought it was really funny because there was one girl in the class that was rather bold about her thoughts. She was a sociology major, so I guess that provides some help. One of those people that has the most passionate thoughts on society. So every time my professor would joke about how Christians trash of gays all the time or about how Americans need to stop complaining about immigrants taking jobs that we won't do in the first place, that girl would get this big ol' argument wound up and would practically demolish my professor with crazy statistics and whatnot. It was the most enjoyable class of 12 students, to say the least.
Ok, I thought of something to write about. Recently, as in the last few months or so, I have been dreaming about what I want to do after college. I think all of the hype about graduation had gotten me thinking about it. There was so much to sort out. I realized that after college, there are so many options for me. It's not like graduating high school where I knew I was going to go to college and that was all I had to worry about. Now, I could either go to graduate school and continue my education. Or I could jump in and get a great job and start working. This could be virtually anywhere! I thought about moving back to the Northwest. Probably not Idaho, there isn't a whole lot that attracts me there. I was looking into Jackson Wyoming, a couple places in Alaska, and Colorado, and Utah. Pretty much anywhere in the heart of the Rocky Mountains.
On a side note, what if by the time I get out of college, I'm in a very deep relationship and could be getting married!? The thought of that scares me and makes me shiver. Ew. I have put a lot of thought into this actually. Especially since APU has an astounding 3 to 1 girl to guy ratio or something close to that. But what really strikes me is that women here are often times very career driven. Now in our culture, men are typically the individual that brings in the income into a married household. In fact, after asking numerous people and seeing similar studies, most guys actually value their superiority in their career much more than I thought. Most men said that they could marry a woman that makes more money than them. But then what if their wife made more money than them in the same field of work. This changed the question completely and most guys said they couldn't do that. I thought that was the most fascinating thing. So the point I'm leading to is, since women at APU are so passionate about their careers and see that they have an opportunity to provide for themselves and be successful, what happens when they get married? Who sacrifices one career for another? Normally the wife would always give up her life for that of her husband. What if say, I get a great job lined up in Seattle while my fiance gets a great opportunity in San Diego? This question has never really been addressed ever in history. I kept putting myself in this situation and found that it would be really hard for me to give up my career for that of my significant other. Maybe that is just me. I am very driven by success through a career. Other people may have totally different thoughts. Something to think about, and something I think about frequently.
So back to my career dreams, I would really like to get a great marketing, event planning, branding, advertising, or something"ing" job somewhere deep in the mountains. The drive for me to be in the snow and the bitter cold is something that really lights an emotional fire in me. I had a dream a few weeks ago and I vividly remember it. The part that makes me remember this dream most is that it was exactly what I wish I could do.
In this dream, I was just graduating college here at APU and I was packing up my things to embark on my career. I had already gone through an interview process and was offered a job at a ski resort in Alaska as their retail marketing manager. I would be in charge of all of the company-owned ski shops and would be living on the resort all year round (huge personal fantasy of mine). Then, while I was packing up my things and filtering through what I was going to take with me, I noticed that I was packing my stuff into my pearl white 2008 Nissan Xterra Pro-4x. I had been saving most of my college money that I had earned through my four years here and had bought one of my dream cars. On a trailer was my Audi that had then become my project car because it has over 200,000 miles. No joke, it really does. I packed my things and before I knew it, I was leaving sunny California and trucking through Canada and into the Last Frontier.
If only this would come true. Most of it, actually, is quite possible. I have looked into the cost of me getting a new car after I graduate and with the expected value of a Nissan Xterra about 4 years from now being 8 to 10 grand, I could easily pay half of that in cash. So I'm not reaching to far here.
With this all said, I miss the mountains. I miss snow. I miss silence. After being in the city for 9 months, I am ready to move on. There is a lot of cool stuff here in LA County and I hope to get around to seeing the best of it. But I just can't stay here. I desire the much more family oriented and friendly environment that I found in Idaho. Life there is much more simpler. People care about you there. You know your neighbors. Here, it is all about having a nice car and dwelling in the corporate world. The mountains are where I belong.
God Bless.
