First Post

I hope this first post won't end up being as embarrassing as the one from my previous journal, which I kept throughout high school. I won't post the url for fear someone I actually know may go through to trouble of looking it up. I think for most, high school is a generally embarrassing time of life, although it seems for most it just takes much longer for them to realize it's something for them to be embarrassed about. Perhaps I've become more suave in the college life, or perhaps more self-confident. But in general feel like I'm making an ass of myself a lesser portion of the time.

Right now, there's nothing really wrong with my life in a few words. It's a life anybody could make something out of, really, even if at the moment I'm giving into slovenly tendencies more often than not. There are things I hate about it, like my small apartment, lack of money, low-paying job, and non-voluntary existence in a very small town at a very small college meant mainly for farming and cows. I escape the doldrums from time to time and I dream of far off lands. I love to travel and am currently trying to get in as much as possible before I have to face reality and get a real job and a real life instead of aimlessly meandering wherever the wind happens to blow me. Last year was Japan, this fall is Taiwan. Japan had its share of bad moments, but other than that, it was one of the best things I think I've ever decided to do. Lord only knows what I'd be doing now if I hadn't. Taiwan seems promising and I'm trying not to hold it up to Japan, but it's difficult not to do. Right now, as I spend days sitting around the apartment, working nine hour days fixing technology, I can't help but think to myself that I really need to get out of here. At this point, I need to go somewhere. Luckily, Taiwan seems like a fabulous place.

I am the kind of person who needs to move and change. I get bored. I'm not a crazy, happy-go-lucky, spontaneous kind of person, but a person who needs to learn and see new things every once in a while, put things into perspective and have a reason to change. I don't want to get stuck in one place for too long.

Mark (my lovely live-in boyfriend) has been gone for the last few weeks so I've had the apartment all to myself. Naked sandwiches all for me. Bastard should have taken me with on his trip. When he comes back it'll be a struggle between being completely miffed and happy to see him again. The troubles of being a good girlfriend.

Work bright and early tomorrow, again for a change of pace. Hopefully this week will hurry itself along right into the 4th.