Okay, so I've received a complaint that I haven't updated this in a while. So here we go.
I'm going to Japan. Are any of you going to talk me out of this? I'm graduating in the spring and I'm not tied to anything or anyone and..........and I could do anything! So unless someone has a better idea or wants me to fulfill some secret adventurous wish he or she cannot do for him or herself now, I will be that tool to complete that mission. The only criteria is it needs to get me out of Utah and it needs to help me make money.
In the meantime, I'm applying to teach English in Japan and I feel fine. Jittery, but fine. Does anyone know how I could just go live in Scotland? Couldn't I sell bread somewhere or something? What does one do after graduation? I enjoy where I'm at: I enjoy my punk students who attend class just to raise their hands and reply to my "Don't tell me 'hot', SHOW me 'hot'" with "This class is hotter than two rats screwing in a wool sock." I enjoy reading Margaret Atwood. I enjoy sharing crowded offices with computers old enough to run green n' black versions of The Oregon Trail and Number Munchers, and I enjoy riding my bike with the milk-crate-basket across campus with snow-clodded leaves dropping on my head. These things complete my soul. For now.
But the north-westerly winds are a-blowing and I need some type of prophetic call-to-arms or traysure map or archetypal geezer to give me a pouch of vials and a magic amulet to defeat a specific purpose that I do not have to decide for myself. Nobody likes crazy forks in the road where all paths look just as inviting as the rest. I feel like....a lot of bad metaphors: I feel like a choose-your-own-adventure book with just random words in the middle of blank pages; I feel like I'm in the stupid maze of this incredibly nerdy text adventure game called Zork I used to play when I was twelve; I feel like the alto note in one of those weird hymns that have no resolution at the end. They're rare, but they exist. And it's always the alto part that adds the dissonance with somebody...keeps it awkward and pending. Will it resolve up? Down? Ever? This is my state of mind, and this is my lame posting. Take it for what it's worth. I am Clear Moon Full Night and I have spoken.
7 comments:
Zork? Oh dear...Em, you can't move to Japan! Who's going to be my roomie in our second edition of grad school? And if you do move anywhere, go to Scotland. The University of Edinburgh boasts some of the hottest human beings I've ever seen. OK, here's what you do...apply to MFAs now, just to see where you get in (apply everywhere)...second, maybe do another stint of Anasazi camp, this time with pen and paper in hand creative the next great American masterpiece...thrice, meet hot young Captain Moroni and taunt him mercilessly.
er...when were you in Edinburgh? Do they need composition teachers? And hey....I'd be home the summer of '08 so we'd just be starting the MFA prog. together. Cool? Yeah? Happy? Fun?
Done and done.
But you've done Japan. And Scotland is great, but too accesible.
Turkmenistan.
I am not kidding.
Japan needs you. I bet you would love Japan! :) Or any other overseas adventure . . . a year is so short, a year is no-big-deal. I can't believe your rat sock kid--that's AWESOME. ;D
sorry about the forks dear--they suck.
Gilly! It's so good to hear from you. It's about 2am in the morning and I couldn't sleep (a nightly event when you're 9 months pregnant) so I thought I'd check our blog... and there you were! As far as your next adventure, I'm all up for Asia. If you do go to Japan you must hop over to Korea for a visit. Fred and I will be here until August of 2007 and would love to entertain you! We even have a spare bedroom you're welcome to and we'll give you all the ramen your heart could desire :o) It's good to hear from you! Talk to you soon-
*GASP*!!! WHOA! haven't checked this in awhile. No no no, Scotland's a horrible idea. Look, nato is one thing, but haggas?! tsk tsk.
Number munchers rocks.
Zork is before my time, but i remember seeing used versions of it at the nerd store in the mall...
I've done Japan as well. But where would we be if people never looked back?
I hate when the movies do that by the way.
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