sorta. actually i was just thinking about the book "all quiet on the western front" the other day and promptly turned it into a blog title in my head. anyway, did you ever read that book? for some reason when i was in high school, i thought i needed to be very academic. little did i know that i would be 32 working for next to nothing in a plumbing company...i digress. but really i didn't have serious plan for college (like michael cress, who went to harvard)...i just figured i needed to go somewhere and didn't matter where. but i still took those horrible academic degree classes...when i could have just taken regular people classes. anyway again, my senior year i took ap english and we had to read a bunch of classic books...like 20 or something and tested every other week. i really only remember three books. "all quiet on the western front" because it saddened me greatly and the title haunts me. "of mice and men" because it was so short and everyone saved it for the "last minute, oh crap i didn't read a book yet" week. also every once in a while "i like to touch soft things" pops in my head. another book i remember that i attempted to read was "the scarlet letter," after reading the first chapter three times and not understanding any of it i decided it was not the book for me.
this is what i gained from ap senior english at choctaw high school. thanks a lot mrs. mullins.
hmph.
but really not much is going on regarding the job hunt. i'm still at the plumbing place and i think i need to quit but i don't have a back up plan and it completely freaks me out. but i have to remind myself i can find a job on the north side making just as much money...but it's still become a security blanket for me. there's lot of other issues like taxes, feeling under appreciated and wanting to do some other things but the first paragraph wore me out...so if you want to chat about the my plumbing dilemma...give me a call.
no really...i'm lonely these days.
i think i'm going to give my temporary notice tomorrow.
just a few other notes:
i made these tonight...i've eaten two and i feel like a buttery blob. oh but they are tasty. who cares about the crap load of butter. (note to self: you really, really, really need to go the gym tomorrow)
doesn't this look fun. i really want to play.
my mac was sick but he's all better now. happy sigh.
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I too am a survivor of CHS AP English. Let's start a support group.
Fahrenheit 451 was another good short book for cramming before test. Word spread that Madame Bovary's test was essay format, so no one dared read it.
Sadly, I didn't finish Jane Eyre before test-time so I used Cliff Notes. I remember reading them during 1st hour broadcasting (English was 3rd hour - way to procrastinate, huh?) and I was so bummed that I didn't read it for real, because Cliff Notes made it sound pretty good. I've always wanted to read it for real. Maybe that should be one of my New Year's resolutions.
Is there something to be said that we're both products of CHS AP English, and our careers are in communication? Hmmm...
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