2ndclepunkbuddha

As another year comes to a close, it's time to once again wax poetic and look back on what we have experienced and learned.  It was a difficult year, like the last few years have been for all of us.  I learned a lot, I had some wonderfully happy moments and my share of horrible moments, it was not as bad nor as good as some have been, and yet it certainly hasn't been boring.  Made some wonderful new friends, had a few new experiences, and discovered much about the world and within myself.  Certainly more than most people get to do with themselves, but most people aren't committed to such experiences in life.  The literal education experience continues for me.  After having been kicked out of the redneck middle school at the end of last year, had to petition with CSU to put me, once again, into Practicum.  As I am now familiar with the process and how it goes, when this happens (and I am not the first by any means) the higher institution that is wanti...

Years ago I was sitting with a fellow coworker and was trying to have a chat about things, some ice breakers and getting to know you type of questions.  I said when I was a little kid I wanted to become a superhero of some kind, hoping that I would discover, like in the folklore of Superman, that I would find that mysterious person or event that would transform, change or awaken a mysterious power or force within me that would give me the invincible powers I needed (super strength, the power of flight, x ray vision, etc.) in order to become one.  Of course, I realized that was downright silly and it wasn't going to happen, but in the innocence of youth you hope for things like that.  I asked the coworker before me what she wanted to be when she was a little kid when she grew up.  Instead of an astronaut or cowboy or movie star, she said "I figured whatever would happen to me would happen to me."  Of this answer I was disappointed, but have found this to be the c...