I just turned in my last final this morning, and I return triumphant!
Mostly. I still have to turn in the final version of my thesis, but I think I can afford an hour or so to update this thing. Here goes:
I've decided to make this blog a bit more anonymous, so I've removed all the information about the school that I am attending, my location, and any pictures of myself I've posted here. I honestly don't think that keeping this blog is going to significantly endanger my chances for employment, otherwise, I'd delete it altogether, since anonymity on the internet is largely illusory. Besides, I'm pretty sure my minor in women's and gender studies is enough to alert any and all potential employers to the fact that I'm a crazy pinko man-hating liberal, and any blog entries to the same effect would border on being redundant.
However, I'm not wild about stalkers and I might end up teaching, so some degree of anonymity (to the effect of: "You can't PROVE that's me!") is probably a good thing, especially after witnessing first-hand the hilarity that resulted from the time my friends and I uncovered the MySpace page of a housing official who liked to bust on us for violating university alcohol policy. Let's just say there are few things more amusing than proof that your most loathed disciplinarian is functionally illiterate and suffering from a terminal case of internet disease. I really don't want that to be me three years down the line, so I decided to delete my MySpace account altogether. I also broke down and deleted my infamous e-dating profiles, partly because that is also sketchy, and partly because I got a boyfriend (sigh, there goes my lesbian street cred) and therefore don't really need them anymore.
So, as of now, I am officially an almost-graduated (nine days!) student from Elite, Over-Priced University (yes, I am still bitter about my student loans) in a Southern city, where I'm planning on staying after I graduate. Sound good? I think so.
As far as my real life goes, it's been a rollercoaster of getting ready to graduate, frantically finishing my thesis, deciding not to go to grad school (and experiencing a major existential crisis accordingly), rushing through finals, and a virtual hurricane of personal drama that includes, but is by no means limited to, acquiring a boyfriend amidst midterms, dorm-related woes, and threats of severe bodily injury over LiveJournal. Things have mostly stabilized this week, though, and I'm hoping it continues.
My current trajectory is as follows: finish thesis -> graduate -> get a relatively lucrative job that will provide me with enough income to live off of and health insurance. The last step doesn't look like it's working out so well, which doesn't exactly surprise me, given my degree and lack of work experience outside of the food service industry. So, I've decided that if it doesn't work out, I'm going to get a quasi-cruddy job that pays well enough to cover the bills and go back to school in the fall to obtain teaching licensure. If I like that, I'll keep with it; if not, I'll do something else.
That's about it. I'll write more later or tomorrow. I've missed this thing.
