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I’ve been wanting to post this for months.
If you guys are at all interested, the Italian daily Corriere della Sera (which is itself published in Milan where I hope to live in a year) has pretty good coverage of the election here negli Stati.
They cover everything from Sarah Palin’s fashion-gate to San Francisco’s proposal to legalize prostitution to the whole “racists for Obama” thing.
Oh, yeah. The whole thing is in Italian. Nota bene for you.
So, today I rose at eight in the morning. This is odd for me; I’m generally the sort of fellow who’s in bed at about two in the morning and straggles to the waking world around 9:30. I wake up at eight when I have to be somewhere at ten, and need the time to say morning prayer (which takes around fifteen to twenty minutes depending on how groggy I am) and get my eyes to stay open. The whole morning process is really about forty solid minutes of wanting to go back to bed.
And today is my day off. I don’t have a full schedule of classes on Thursdays, just my obligatory Statistics lab, and that’s not until two in the afternoon. So seriously, today, up at eight, on my day off. Why on earth would I do this to myself?
Because I had to meet with my academic advisor about my final semester here at VCU. Yes, friends, my time here approaches its end, and thank the Holy God for that, because I’ve been here for six years and it’s time to go. Well, five years. I took a year off. But still! Pretty much the better part of a decade has been spent scurrying along the campus grounds. VCU is has an urban campus, the buildings smack in the middle of the city, really forming the center of Places I Go. I’m getting rather sick of the college environment with its ebb and flow of students and vacation times; I’d much rather finally make it out of here, get a real job, and stop hanging around with college kids (all due love to the college kids around whom I do, in fact, hang).
But I’m twenty-four and still in here, and that’s a problem. But I’ll be out come May. I’ve put together finally my Spring 2008 schedule, gotten the GPA for my major (a 3.6, which is far better than my overall GPA), and now, my next semester is simply a beautiful formality. Comprised largely of electives, my requirements largely covered, I have three English lit classes, two Italian classes, and a bullshit freshman 101 class which will provide a nice, calming respite at eleven in the morning three days a week. I’ve finished my minor (Religous studies), am nine credits away from finishing my major (English), and after that, it’s all just “take whatever you want to take.”
Oh yes. I am.
There’s a job in Milan I’m after. I’m pretty damn qualified for it and it’s in a field I love: video games. Its the opportunity of a lifetime, and I hope I can get it. I’m putting together my resume, translating it into Italian, putting together the documents required for my citizenship, and once everything is taken care of, oh man, will I be a competitive contender for that job! My great hope is that, in that position, I’ll be able to bring about the production of some of my better ideas, like Sanctuary: Hope is Not Yet Lost, as full-on badass video games.
Anyway. Pray for me. I’m finally starting to stand on my own feet.
