Update and purging

I feel like purging usually has a very bad connotation. When the word purge is usually uttered in conversation it is in reference to purging food when you have an eating disorder. The dictionary.com definition is as follows:

to rid of whatever is impure or undesirable; cleanse; purify.

I have decided that I am now going to use this word to describe the changes in my life. I am no longer going to allow situations or people to be hurtful to me or treat me like shit. I am going to purge all the bad things out of my life (at least to the best of my ability).

Now on to good things: update. I have decided to go back to school. Again. Yes, I know that I already have two degrees. Unfortunately the first one turned out to be slightly useless without the second one. The second one is useless in a shitty economy. Although I am starting to believe that the second one is useless anyway because only coaches who don't know how to teach social studies actually get the jobs that I want and that I am qualified for. But whatever. So I am going back to school again, but this time for geography. I think I might want to be a professor of geography, because I think I still want to teach, but on a very different level. Going back to school to be a professor will require a minimum of seven years of school but I am focusing on getting into a masters program out west. I am only applying to schools out west because no matter what I do, I really want to be out west. Specifically somewhere in the Rocky Mountains or in the Pacific Northwest. Those places are just so amazing that I don't want to be anywhere else, and I've spent the last year trying everything I can think of to get out there. So if I'm going back to school, that's where I am going.

As a backup to graduate school, I have also finally received my Colorado teaching license. After seven months of waiting and getting it back because it wasn't completed correctly and then me letting it sit in my room for two straight months, then finishing it correctly and mailing it back, I finally have it. It is technically an interim license, but it can get me a job in Colorado now. That is what matters, because it is time for something else.

I also got to play frisbee this fall, which was a surprise on some levels. Thanks to Chris O'Cleary for being an amazing friend and me getting to try out for Midnight Train, I got to play (technically). I mean, I was on a team, but the team was HUGE so I didn't play a lot of points, but the points I played were awesome, I got to play my position, and I held my own when I had to play defense (very little defense did I play, but I didn't get scored on much, and for me that is good defense). The best part about the season is all the amazing people that I have met. I got to play on a team where I didn't know 50% of the team at all and another 25% very well. They were super fun and have made the last few months some of the best socially that I've had in Atlanta. They've made me realize that I need to purge the bad things and people out of my life that I continue to be friends with because that's just the way things have been, but those people don't necessarily treat me well. So no more.

And I like how I brought all this back around full circle :) Good times.

oh... and Chain is playing in UPA Open Nationals today! Here we go!

So those are the updates