#TBT ! In Other Words... Thinking 'Bout Teachin' and Grad Schools

Lots of thinking today...

What does a recently turned 25 year old Dragon Child do on her days off from selling massive amounts of tea to the general population of Colorado? Think about what the bloody hell she is doing with her life and how it can be improved!

This morning (I got up pretty early) I checked my emails, took the dog outside for a walk and then immediately got dressed to go to my apartment's pool. One great thing about living in CO is that most apartments are going to have pools, even the really inexpensive apartments. Thank. Goodness.
This state is hotter than hell right now and from what I've heard it's going to stay hot all the way until October! I'm okay with that...especially since winter lasted until May 1st. No really, May 1st was the last day of snow we had here in Denver. What the heck!?

Anyway, as I was sunbathing and reading at the pool listening to all of the stuck up rich teens playing Marco Polo, I noticed one of the teen's dad said:

"Hey, do you guys even know who Marco Polo is?"

"Yeah, of course we do!" said one of the teens.

"Okay, then who is he?"

No joke, the teens seemed so incredibly confident in their answer! All 5 of them answered in unison, saying:

"He was a MURDERER!"

God. I swear I almost dropped my book. No, strike that, I almost THREW my copy of The Tao of Pooh at these 14+ year old kids. He was a MURDERER!? Okay, so I then thought "Wait, wait, wait...maybe I missed something in the 5th grade when I was watching those educational cartoons on world heroes (I was home-schooled you see...)." I got my phone out of my backpack and started googling the following: "Marco Polo murderer".

This is all that I found:

I honestly doubt this children's murder/mystery book is what they were talking about. I mean, but I'm not perfect and this easily could be what they were talking about...HOWEVER...

My next thought? "Our public school system SUCKS."

My second thought? "My manager told me yesterday that she wished she had had someone like me be her art teacher when she was in school."

My third thought? "I would be an awesome teacher."

So, some dumb kids playing Marco Polo actually made me feel excited about being a teacher.

Lordy!

Lately, I have been thinking about what I've wanted to do with my life anyway. I tossed around the idea of opening my own tea house, becoming a screenplay writer, actor, playwright and many other things. I have thought about teaching but I was never serious about it. I'm still not a fan about working with the public school system and if I was going to do any sort of teaching, I would want to be a tutor to home schooled kids and/or teach college kids and skip the whole grade school thing in general. Not sure if that's realistic or not...ha! I've also always wanted to get my Masters in Fine Arts.

...and I then thought, "Ya know, no matter what I want to do with my life, my MFA is going to probably in the end help me achieve that. If not get me a job it will at least get me to write more often as well as help improve my "taste" (the "taste" that Ira Glass tells me I have). It will help me get back on track with staying organized too - which is something that I've noticed I've been lacking.

I seriously sat down and looked up universities that I could attend and because my life is insane (I'm sort of in love and stuff and don't really want to leave my honey and dog...) I looked up ones that do online MFA programs. I am going to make this happen. I am going to get out of this retail jail (even if it is selling tea) and I am going to take my dumpy job diapers off and put my amazing job pull-ups on and be a big kid now!

Love & Peace.