2007: the quitting continues.

i'm clearly having serious problems updating my blog on a regular basis. i think it has something to do with all the changes that i made last year and wanting to start over, yet i still have the same blog. also, i talked a lot about my dogs and since i no longer have them i don't have any good dog stories to tell. how sad is that?! you'd think prison would generate some good stories, but no. nothing exciting ever happens in jail--i mean, not in the parts they allowed me in--except for that one time they lost track of all those sharp objects (scissors and such) and had a three-day lockdown until they were found. i never heard if/where they found the lost sharp things, but the three-day lockdown was insane. it was like being in high school again.

speaking of prison, i am no longer there. and i'm not in school anymore. graduate school was getting expensive and it turned out this program wasn't good enough. i wasn't getting out of it what i needed to in order to justify the expense and time commitments. had i been getting paid to get hit on by prisoners instead of being hit on for free (see, i meant it when i said i wasn't getting much out of it) this maybe would have turned out differently. maybe. it was over winter break that i realized i didn't really want to go back. i didn't heed the first warning sign, which was that i was completely envious of a friend of mine who quit school a couple of weeks before i did. but then i started panicking about having to go to class again and i thought, hmmm, maybe i need some time off, and then i made soccersusan's mom reassure me that i wasn't a complete failure for quitting. she was very convincing. i withdrew from school the next day. no regrets so far.

so, for now i'm working at a coffee shop and, for whatever reason, i really like it. this makes little sense because i don't get paid much and it's hard work and the last time i had a job like this? i swore i'd never do it again. but the past year has made very little sense anyway, so i'm going to assume this is just more of that. what i really want to do is to save some money and open my own coffee shop in the next couple of years, and i think part of the reason i like my job now is because the coffee shop thing is kinda what i want to do. of course, i also thought i wanted to be a social worker and that didn't turn out quite as planned.

i think i have some kind of adult-onset career ADD. actually, it's probably just regular ADD. case in point: this is off topic, but i love soccersusan. she makes me happy.