i realize i never use this anymore

It's true, I do. But for some reason, this irrational part of me refuses to just not have an internet blog. I say I'll use it and blog more with no vigor. It's a complete lie. But I do, however, like to spontaneously have it updated in bursts of days followed by long periods of silence. It makes me feel as if I'm paying for it for a reason.

Here is my life, lately:

- I got a job as a runaway and homeless youth counselor. It's a non-profit job and the federal grant it operates on is up for re-evaluation in October for another three-year funding grant, so I may not have a job then if it doesn't get renewed. However, I feel as if this is the job that God has chosen for me and I'm trying not to stress about it. I'm failing really bad at it, but I'm trying at least.

- I'm working in the surrounding rural farm communities of Lubbock, TX. This consists of three counties that probably have more cows than people in them, but I love it. The town my office is located in has 13,000 people and is thirty minutes away from the city of 270,000 I live in and I actually love the commute and lack of people.

- My office is in the back of a tanning salon/travel agency. No, really. It is. There are only two counselors assigned to this entire region of Texas (including me) and this random hybrid business was nice enough to rent out a decently sized spare room they had in the back. It's pretty awesome.

- I drive a loooooot.

- Most of my job is runaway prevention and mentoring, versus actually working with runaway and homeless youth; it's kinda nice to try to stop something rather than do damage control for a change.

- I have to teach drug awareness/truancy, dating violence, and court-mandated parenting classes in the fall. I believe I'm woefully unqualified to teach a parenting class, but hey, whatever.

- I feel old, as kids are now currently teaching me about Lady Gaga, Jersey Shore, The Hills, Keeping Up with the Kardashians, Katy Perry, and Ed Hardy. All I have to say is - WTF? Seriously?

- I really wonder where shows like Daria and bands like Hole went (her new album sounds like a drunk chain-smoking meth-head trying to sing karaoke, and I'm sadly probably not too far off with that assessment).

- I've come to the realization that I'm really really glad I'm popular culture oblivious.

That is all. For now. I have to actually get to work.

well this kinda took a while

I love him. =) He loves me, despite my hat-hair.

My aunt just turned 50. I hope we have similar genes. I'm also growing out my hair. It's awkward.

These are the same glasses I had in high school....9 years ago. I broke my most recent frames. I'm a pro at scowl/smirking for the camera.

omg countdown time!

I have three (that's right....three) days of class left. Then I am done. Forever. Completely forever. Outside of that two year counseling internship thing. But with school, yes. Forever.

This short story I'm writing is going weird and unexpected places. I'm really glad when I'll be done with this all.

rise and sing, rise and sing

eLife Easter, 2010. I run the main camera.

The media team is composed of some of the best people ever and I'm fortunate to serve with them. Easter was amazing - He died and did rise and will come again.

ohhh i got it all working, kinda

I somehow broke my Razer gaming mouse - it's still functional, thankfully. When I say "I broke it" what I really mean is that I was doing something stupid when trying to clean it and bent back the left click button too far and cracked the casing like a wafer. It's just cosmetically damaged and since it has a huge orange glowing "Guild Wars" logo on it, that's saying a lot.

I got it on sale for $25 when they were new and going for about $70. I never played Guild Wars.

New Final Fantasy has been out for a couple of days, by the way. I haven't bought it yet but I might next week. Used to be that I omgcannotLIVE if I didn't get it .034935 seconds after midnight on the release day but I seemed to have mellowed out in my old age. I can only really think "I have about a solid 100+ hours of life to be entertained through now gaming-wise. Yay." I'm pretty excited about it really; hopefully the level grind won't be as obnoxious as level grinds usually are.

Yea, I'm optimistic.

I should have commented on this lonnnnnng ago, but the new WoW Armory is cool. Plus I can personally pose my character into a really dumb condescending position to accost people looking her up. That's pretty great.

WTB raid heals for the rest of ICC as well.

New layout is still a little borky, but it's working alright. I need to do some more maintenance like add my Facebook feed back and fix broken image links. But I'm actually sleepy at the moment, finally, and so it's off to bed.

Note to self: I think about gaming stuff a lot when I can't sleep.