One of my favorite professors @ Bama once told a story during class about how he almost died on the operating table. “I started to drift away,” he said. “I began to follow the light I saw at the end of the tunnel.” Ahh, the proverbial light-at-the-end-of-the-tunnel story...just like a Hallmark channel original movie, only in my PR class.
“I walked closer and closer to the light, and then I saw what it was.” Anticipation was everywhere. The sorority girl who had been previously texting and loudly chewing her gum now had her head slightly tilted with lips parted—giving the piece of blue wintermint a much needed rest. The old lady in class (you know who I’m talking about, the one in every class) had furiously transcribed every word of the story to this point and now had her pen firmly pressed into the sheet of college ruled, eager to jot down the wisdom that would surely come. The football player, well, hadn’t come to class yet…
“The light at the end of the tunnel is…” magical, I thought. Nope. “A disco ball.” Say what? “The light at the end of the tunnel is a disco ball.” At this revelation, the half-open mouth closed around the blue wintermint, ending what few moments of solitude the gum had. The old lady in class continued to furiously note every word, nodding in agreement as if she had stood right next to the professor and saw the semi-afterlife disco ball as well. The football player…still wasn’t in class. And me? I smiled.
In some ways, my professor’s near-death experience can be applied to my blog. It slowly begins to die and starts inching closer to the light at the end of the tunnel, which we now know is a disco ball, then it comes back to life. I’ve had several people tell me I need to update my blog…I just haven’t gotten around to it. Maybe it has to do with the fact I write stuff all day at work and just don’t feel like it afterwards, or it could just mean that I need to update it while I’m at work…shh. So everyone marvel at the new banner I made for the top of my page…”Ohh, ahh.” That’s right.
And if you can read, you can see it’s been nine months between the two updates here on the ESOTKM. There are plenty of things, trips, excursions, etc. to fill a couple more posts (I even got a job). I promise to update more regularly. And if not, you can join my blog in a few months as it starts that long walk to the end of the tunnel. Be sure to bring your platform shoes though, this here blog likes to dance to ABBA!
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
Tuesday, October 2, 2007
A new blog era...
So...I decided to start a new blog. I used to have a xanga, technically I still do, but I felt like starting over and this felt a lot more, ahem, grown up? I never really know what to post on these things, mainly because I can't understand why anyone would want to read about my life. I enjoy reading other people's blogs, don't get me wrong, but my own?
Anyways, the main thing going on in my life right now is that I am looking for a job. I have had more people, random people even, ask me if I have a job in the past few months than ever before. I cannot for the life of me explain this phenomenon. I guess it is just an automatic repsonse to me saying that I graduated from college. "Oh, really? Do you have a job yet?" Never do I hear congratulations on actually finishing college in four years. No words of wisdom or funny anecdotes recounting their time after college, or high school, or whatever. Just that question. "Do you have a job?" My favorite part however, is their response when I say, "Nope, not yet. I am still looking."
At that moment, it is like a new person is standing in front of me. Any form of a smile diappears. A blank look of disgust and semi-horror takes over. For some of them, their faces begin to twitch, as if to show that they are trying to smile but simply can't. I can only imagine what is running through their minds. It's as if they are trying to think of the perfect motivational saying to scream at me. "LIKE THE CAT BARELY HOLDING ON TO THE BRANCH ON THAT POSTER SAYS: HANG IN THERE!!" Somebody shoot me please. I know you know what poster I'm talking about too. We've all seen it, and everyone wants to say something to that effect when finding out that I (and everyone else currently job searching) are still unemployed. ON behalf of everyone, Thanks. Thank you so very much.
I have half the mind to gather all my currently unemployed friends who recently graduated and start printing t-shirts with all the sayings we've heard. I can see it now: The t-shirts are always pink or light blue, I don’t know why, but they are. Maybe every once in a while we will print some off that are yellow, but we don't want to get too far ahead of ourselves now do we? They will probably have a butterfly or some other majestic, winged creature (by creature I mean insect or small bird, in rare cases an eagle. Go America!) on them. They will be worn by many and inspire few, but by gosh I will have a job. A smile on every face and a 5 dollar t-shirt covering every torso.
Until next time, hang in there.
Kyle
Anyways, the main thing going on in my life right now is that I am looking for a job. I have had more people, random people even, ask me if I have a job in the past few months than ever before. I cannot for the life of me explain this phenomenon. I guess it is just an automatic repsonse to me saying that I graduated from college. "Oh, really? Do you have a job yet?" Never do I hear congratulations on actually finishing college in four years. No words of wisdom or funny anecdotes recounting their time after college, or high school, or whatever. Just that question. "Do you have a job?" My favorite part however, is their response when I say, "Nope, not yet. I am still looking."
At that moment, it is like a new person is standing in front of me. Any form of a smile diappears. A blank look of disgust and semi-horror takes over. For some of them, their faces begin to twitch, as if to show that they are trying to smile but simply can't. I can only imagine what is running through their minds. It's as if they are trying to think of the perfect motivational saying to scream at me. "LIKE THE CAT BARELY HOLDING ON TO THE BRANCH ON THAT POSTER SAYS: HANG IN THERE!!" Somebody shoot me please. I know you know what poster I'm talking about too. We've all seen it, and everyone wants to say something to that effect when finding out that I (and everyone else currently job searching) are still unemployed. ON behalf of everyone, Thanks. Thank you so very much.
I have half the mind to gather all my currently unemployed friends who recently graduated and start printing t-shirts with all the sayings we've heard. I can see it now: The t-shirts are always pink or light blue, I don’t know why, but they are. Maybe every once in a while we will print some off that are yellow, but we don't want to get too far ahead of ourselves now do we? They will probably have a butterfly or some other majestic, winged creature (by creature I mean insect or small bird, in rare cases an eagle. Go America!) on them. They will be worn by many and inspire few, but by gosh I will have a job. A smile on every face and a 5 dollar t-shirt covering every torso.
Until next time, hang in there.
Kyle
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