Moving!

The (not very) long story will be at the new place tomorrow.

http://themonotonouslife.com/

I’ll be back here in a month (probably). It’ll make sense when you click over there.

 

The Best $5 I’ve Ever Spent

It’s not like I’m obsessed or anything…

 

My Perfect Job(s)

100 Best Jobs for Lazy Bones

This is the best list I have ever seen. It’s like it was made for me. Doing a quick count I would love to do 45 of the things on this list. Now granted some of them are suppose to be funny quips (like the socialite one) and some you won’t be able to do once you leave college (like intern or work study) but there are some actual careers, like being a freelancer or a teacher. Actually, I would love to make some extra money being a substitute teacher for younger kids*. How does someone get into that?

Anyway, I have seriously thought about doing the librarian thing. I also really want to work at an independent bookstore (eh, I guess B&N would do fine, but why work there if you can work at an “indie” store?). It just seems to fit with the whole Creative Writing-or-English-major-knowing-now-I’m-going-to-graduate-school thing. Being realistic, what else am I going to do with an BA in either of those two majors besides graduate school?

But can someone point me to the ice cream and chocolate taster jobs please? If that’s not the dream job you didn’t know you want but now that you know of it nothing else could ever compare, then I don’t know what is.

*That is, if I hadn’t been arrested within the first 30 minutes for slapping all those kids silly.

 

SAD

Just sad. This is approaching EPIC FAIL proportions.

At least the eye black and the hand tattoo (that had to hurt while being done) looks hot.

 

You Should Listen To This Now

Far be it for me to tell people what they should and should not read/listen to. I think literature and music preferences are a bit of a personal choice (says the girl who until she was 18 didn’t admit that she listened to anything besides rap and r&b). But sometimes you come across something that you just want to tell anyone who’ll listen to you about. And that happened this past Sunday. I was behind on my podcasts I only got to listen to last week’s Selected Shorts then. And I don’t think I’m over exaggerating when I say that it changed my life. Okay, maybe I’m going a bit overboard there, but still.

One of the best since I started listening to it last October.

The main piece this week featured J. Robert Lennon’s “Eight Pieces for the Left Hand” which I found out was a part of the 2005 Best American Short Story Series. “Eight Pieces…” got extended into a full length novel called Pieces of the Left Hand: 100 Anecdotes. I’m ordering it immediately. All eight pieces that was broadcasts was good and I don’t have any question that the entire book will be just as good.

So give it a listen. Please take note that the first part (the one with “Eight Pieces…”) is a good 25 minutes long. But it’s so worth it. I don’t see a link to listen to it on the page, but any podcast directory should have Selected Shorts in there. You won’t be sorry.

 

My Complete Opposite…

…would have a lot of confidence.
…would see the value in paying $60+ for jeans.
…would want to work with kids.
…would want to have kids and do the whole marriage thing.
…would drink and smoke and have done some type of illegal drugs by now.
…would type better than 70wpm on TypeRacer.
…would be good in math.
…would want to be an actress.
…wouldn’t be afraid of any and all surgery.
…would act before overthinking everything.
…would fall asleep before 3 AM.
…would know the meaning of life and whether we are really here or not.
…wouldn’t be afraid of heights.
…would be a better cook.
…would be a better dancer.
…wouldn’t be afraid to dance in public.
…would want to change the world.

 

Zoho And Six Random Things

You know what I hate? Google Documents. Usually I love using it because it’s a chance to write down blog posts, etc. without having to open Word or Open Office (which on my computer still takes more than a few seconds to open and load). Plus, I spend all my time online anyway so it’s just easier. Needless to say I’ve come to love GDocs.

Until this week. For some reason GDocs isn’t opening. At all. In any way, shape or form. Because of that I am now using Zoho, which I was hesitant to use before. And Zoho Writer is awesome. I would highly recommend it to anyone using an online word processor. I haven’t used some of the other features yet, but I didn’t really use any of the other features of GDocs besides spreadsheets. But I’m sure they’re pretty good as well.

So why am I talking about Zoho and GDocs in this post? Mostly because I needed some type of opening for the “Six Random Things” post I’m about to do. Because of the Bloggie Swap I have been introduced to a new blog of which I would highly recommend. And Cruel Shoes (I seriously wished I had thought up that name) tagged me for doing this (thanks!) and I didn’t have any other way to start this post.

And yes, I completely think I’m clever for this. Anyway, here are the rules…

- Post the rules on your blog
- Write six random things about yourself in a blog post
- Tag six people in your post
- Let each person know they are tagged by leaving a comment on their blog
- Let the tagger know your entry is up

Six whole random things about me? Damn. I suck at these things because I think I’m the most boring person ever. So, let’s do this.

1. I have an affinity to watch CBS soaps when I’m bored and at home during the day.  And  was a straight out fan when I was younger. Out of all of them my favorite was Guiding Light. To this day my two favorite couples are Buzz and Jenna and Phillip and Harley. And I loved how crazy Annie was. The show today doesn’t hold a candle to that of the 90’s, which I’ve heard doesn’t hold water to the show of the 80’s and 70’s. But such is (daytime television) life I suppose.

2. During freshman year of high school I smoked cigarettes for a week. And unlike most people that first start smoking, I didn’t cough or get choked up or anything like that. I also didn’t get automatically addicted like the afterschool specials lead you to believe when you’re in HS. I would walk home and smoke them then. After a week I got tired of trying to steal cigarettes from my brother’s pack so I stopped.

3. Right before that freshman year my father’s job transfered him to Texas. At the time I told my parents how much I didn’t want to move there and how it would be the worst possible thing for me. My father went and my mother and I stayed in South Carolina. (No, I didn’t have anything to do with that.) To this day I feel like my parents made the wrong decision in my mother and me not moving with him and that my life would have turned out better somehow if we had gone to Texas.

4. I don’t know if I believe God exist. But I’m too afraid to not believe. So I’m vastly confused about Christianity and religion in general. And I know that if I were to tell my mother this she would freak the fuck out.

Yes, I did just use “God” and “fuck” in the same little blurb. I don’t know how I feel about that.

5. I sometimes wish I wasn’t a fan of Duke or Michigan. I get really tired of all the crap that gets said about them. Yet I get a little bit (ok, A LOT) of joy out of everyone’s hatred.

6. I am, to quote my girl Elliot from Scrubs, racked with self-doubt. I honestly don’t have any confidence in almost anything I do. And that doubt makes me do things like stay in Charleston when all I ever wanted to do was leave SC and not major in Creative Writing when I know that’s the only thing (minus English and History) that even interest me. And it will probably be the reason why I won’t try to become a writer, even though I absolutely love doing it and can’t really see myself doing anything else.

Wow, some of those are kinda depressing. I honestly didn’t mean for it to be. I need to go back and do my weekly smile list and remember the world doesn’t suck.

So now that my six random things about me are done, I’m tagging six people of my own. Have fun six people.

Tagged for post goodness: Tiff, Andie, Ms. Ericka, Minda, LindzML, TheStarterWife

I wonder if it would it be too much to tag Curtis Granderson? Double entendre intended.