Sunday, May 16, 2004
I was pretty silent there for a few months.
It seems like every year between late January and late April I get really depressed for no reason. Well, this year I guess I had some reasons for my depression, those being:
1) My new job as a school bus driver, which is in itself not all that depressing, but it means getting up at 6:15 every single weekday. Plus, I still have my other job at Cambus, and working two jobs really isn't the cakewalk I'd imagined. So I've been getting up early and working usually four shifts a day, which barely adds up to full time but all the running around is killing me. And I don't have much of a life.
2) I've been reading a lot about industry and the environment, and I'm very worried that either the Earth will run out of fossil fuels before humanity can wean itself off of them or that the ecological ramifications of global warming will render this planet uninhabitable by 2050.
3) Since I'm not in school anymore, my life has kind of plateaued. I'm not really accomplishing or pursuing anything, nor would I have time to if I decided to.
So I've had things to worry about while working during the day, and things to lie awake worrying about at night. But there's good news. 1) School will be out in a short two and a half weeks, and so then I'll just have one job and a lot more free time. 2) It's not like nobody's doing anything about environmental problems, it's just sort of... America. 3) I've decided to go to Kirkwood Community College next fall. Cheap education that can't possibly be that much inferior to the U. of Iowa. I'm all for it.
So yeah, things were pretty depressing for me for a few months there, but now they're getting better. I think I'm going to start updating this pretty regularly again now.
So, what has actually HAPPENED to me over the past few months? Um, really not very much. I left Iowa City twice, I think. Here's a quick rundown: I met Weird Al Yankovic and got him to autograph a picture of my brother. A week later his parents died. I've been writing and performing more pieces at No Shame Theatre, and one of them even made it to the Best Of show, which was thrilling. But a few hours before the Best Of show, I got in a pretty intense bike accident (this soccer mom backed her minivan out in front of me, and I wasn't looking) and I chipped two teeth pretty seriously. I could still perform at the show, but I couldn't talk very well and I looked like I'd gotten beaten up. Such is life. I signed a lease for an apartment that is just perfect for me, and I'm counting down the days until I get to live in it. I bought a combo DVD/VCR. So that's kind of it.
It seems like every year between late January and late April I get really depressed for no reason. Well, this year I guess I had some reasons for my depression, those being:
1) My new job as a school bus driver, which is in itself not all that depressing, but it means getting up at 6:15 every single weekday. Plus, I still have my other job at Cambus, and working two jobs really isn't the cakewalk I'd imagined. So I've been getting up early and working usually four shifts a day, which barely adds up to full time but all the running around is killing me. And I don't have much of a life.
2) I've been reading a lot about industry and the environment, and I'm very worried that either the Earth will run out of fossil fuels before humanity can wean itself off of them or that the ecological ramifications of global warming will render this planet uninhabitable by 2050.
3) Since I'm not in school anymore, my life has kind of plateaued. I'm not really accomplishing or pursuing anything, nor would I have time to if I decided to.
So I've had things to worry about while working during the day, and things to lie awake worrying about at night. But there's good news. 1) School will be out in a short two and a half weeks, and so then I'll just have one job and a lot more free time. 2) It's not like nobody's doing anything about environmental problems, it's just sort of... America. 3) I've decided to go to Kirkwood Community College next fall. Cheap education that can't possibly be that much inferior to the U. of Iowa. I'm all for it.
So yeah, things were pretty depressing for me for a few months there, but now they're getting better. I think I'm going to start updating this pretty regularly again now.
So, what has actually HAPPENED to me over the past few months? Um, really not very much. I left Iowa City twice, I think. Here's a quick rundown: I met Weird Al Yankovic and got him to autograph a picture of my brother. A week later his parents died. I've been writing and performing more pieces at No Shame Theatre, and one of them even made it to the Best Of show, which was thrilling. But a few hours before the Best Of show, I got in a pretty intense bike accident (this soccer mom backed her minivan out in front of me, and I wasn't looking) and I chipped two teeth pretty seriously. I could still perform at the show, but I couldn't talk very well and I looked like I'd gotten beaten up. Such is life. I signed a lease for an apartment that is just perfect for me, and I'm counting down the days until I get to live in it. I bought a combo DVD/VCR. So that's kind of it.
