So many of you probably know that I'm headed to Korea this summer to teach English. I finally got the hold on my degree resolved and I'm now a mere 4 weeks from being a college grad. Luckily you don't have to put when you started college on a resume. U of I is taking their sweet old time getting me the stuff, so now I wait.
I got laid off in January and quickly blew through my savings. Now I find myself working again finally - part-time bouncing at a bar, part-time ushering at the musical theaters downtown, part-time working in a friend's office and various other anythings I can do to pay the bills. It's a pretty frustrating thing because I feel like I'm working all the time but still have no money.
I won't be too self-pitying though. Lots of people are in this same shit situ. The long and short of it is that I'm really looking forward to getting away. I'm tired of working degrading service jobs at 27. It's going to be lousy being away from the fam and my awesome drunken friends but I feel like I'm in rut city here. JP ominously told me 'You can't run away from your own demons' or something like that. I'm pretty sure he was being sarcastic but he studies all the time and is so quiet these days that the few words he utters are imbued with gravitas. Sort of like that time when Erich stopped talking for like a year and everything he did say made us think he hated us. I think we were wrong.
So I'll be over there, demons and all. I'm sure it'll be lonely but it'll be exciting too. I wonder if I can find a Korean Tuman's?
It is what it is
Friday, May 01, 2009
The wait is killing me
Spewed out by Will at 14:48
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2 comments:
if you think the wait is killing you, just wait till you run into your first murderous korean.
Hey,
My friend went over there to teach after finishing her degree and she is only coming back round about now having spent a long while out there. It was tough at first for her but she soon got to love it!
AG
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