song of the day

Words and music by bob seger
Take away my inhibitions
Take away my solitude
Fire me up with your resistance
Put me in the mood
Storm the walls around this prison
Leave the inmates
Free the guards
Deal me up another future
From some brand new deck of cards
Take the chip off of my shoulder
Smooth out all the lines
Take me out among the rustling pines
Till it shines

Like an echo down a canyon
Never coming back as clear
Lately I just judge the distance
Not the words I hear
I’ve been too long on these islands
I’ve been far too long alone
I’ve been too long without summer
In this winter home
Still if we can make the effort
If we take the time
Maybe we can leave this much behind
Till it shines

See the rich man lost and lonely
Watch him as he dines
Sitting there just testing all the wines
Till it shines

career-focused?

So my biggest ambition these days is to go back to school, specifically an advertising school where I can build a portfolio and study copywriting and probably advertising art direction. I love advertising and fear that the market is as volatile as everyone says it is and that you spend the majority of your career getting fired. Hmph. The only thing I've ever really wanted to be is some type of writer, an actual fiction writer, a poet, a book cover copywriter, a critic (whether it's film or restaurants or books), etc. My biggest strengths in my life have always been English and Reading (yeah we're getting high school level hea!). Sometimes I am very jealous of those with lofty aspirations and dreams that span oceans, those who say, hey, the odds are against me but why the hell not? Most of the people I know in my field or in those closely related (journalism, broadcasting, public relations) are unemployed or are not working in these fields at all. Of course Louisiana being one big black hole in the U.S.'s job market could definitely attribute to this fact. *shrugs* I want to be something, someone that I can be proud of, I wish that I had someone to share those aspirations with, but so be it, the cheese stands alone.