Whistle Wit

The biggest things I’m looking forward to in 2011 are doing things my way instead of the way everybody tells me to.  Everybody always says to anchor down, get a steady job (there are no steady jobs), and to go to school.  I hate school, I get stir crazy when I live somewhere for too long, and there is nothing more frustrating than getting paid by the hour for things that I find completely pointless.  Last October, I found a video game that explained how to just walk off from all of that.  Now I’m doing my thing instead of everybody else’s thing, and it is working a lot better.  I have my hobbies the way I want them, I can live in a spotlessly clean section of an apartment and laugh at all the messy people, and I can work on fixing problems so I can keep living like this for a very long time.

If you want my honest opinion, 2010 was probably one of the worst years of my life.  That sounds over-dramatic, but it started with me losing my job, spending four months trying to build a business unsuccessfully, taking a summer job in Pennsylvania that royally fell apart completely, and coming back to live with a friend because nothing was working.  For half a year, I just sort of lived with her, doing nothing, and it totally sucked.  In October, I came across a video game that weirdly explained a few things and I decided to tell everybody to just shut up and let me do my thing.  I did, and now I have my own apartment on a short contract the way I like it, and 2011, so far, looks like it will be way better than 2010.

If I had a million dollars, I already have planned out what I’d do with it, and I’m kind of evil, so I wouldn’t give it to charity.  If I had to give it to ‘charity’, I would give part of it to Wikipedia because Wikipedia is awesome and giving them a big enough amount would mean they could stop begging quite so bad.  The other part of it I would anonymously give to an orchestra teacher I had, just to weird him out. I have no idea what he would do with it, it would just be fun to reward him for being the reason I had a 4.0 in school.  Like I said, I move a lot, and the few years I had at a school with that teacher (several houses in the same neighborhood!), I aced school.  As soon as I moved, I flunked school because I didn’t have a reason to care.  Rewarding him with a bunch of money for putting up with me for those few years would be fun.

Currently, I have an adorable, extremely hard to find in a parking lot Honda Civic.  You laugh, but like I said, I’m stir crazy, and I take that thing on road trips all over the place.  Last night was the first big problem it ever gave me–and that had more to do with the local weather.  I was flipping a U on a back road in the country and slid off the road.  We were fine, and two guys with a truck towed us out.  That car is amazingly durable, and me and my friend take it on road trips across the country all the time.  It has hundreds of thousands of miles on it and it is completely healthy and has given us zero trouble in all that time.  We take good care of it, and it takes good care of us. The biggest thing I don’t like about it is that I share it with a friend and she is a total pack rat.  I hate messes, and the car is a mess disaster zone inside.  It drives me crazy, but that’s her fault, not the car.