Life Plan Version 4.0

You guys. I have a plan. I'll tell you how I happened upon it, but don't judge me too harshly. On Thursday night I journeyed out to the River Oaks theater to see Blade Runner at midnight. I had absolutely zero context for what was going on. My friend had been imploring me to read Philip K. Dick's novel the movie is based on (although I was totally unaware of that fact) UNTIL after the movie, when I couldn't help but ask some nice looking folks likewise engaged in a post-film cigarette, about the significance of the unicorn. Said folks ended up inviting me over for beer and I now fully appreciate the phrase "When in Rome," which the lovely lady oh so appropriately played on vinyl the next morning.

Anyway, the plan...so the gentleman told me of his adventures as an English teacher in Korea. All you need is a Bachelor's degree of some sort and a year of your life to spend somewhere else. After that, you are free to take the money and run, at which point you can set aside what you need to live and use the rest to travel, invest, etc. Then you do it again. You know, til it gets old. Then you think of something else. 

I've heard good things about Thailand. I think that's where I'll go first. 

I'm actually pretty stoked about the classes I'm taking this semester. I'm doing a film/literature course, 19th and 20th century philosophy and government. Okay, I'm stoked about the first two. Next semester is going to be a painstaking sprint to the finish line though with another gov't, math and history. Things I should've marked off the list a long time ago. It's okay though. I got this. 

So then I'll face the option of transferring to UH main campus and finding a place in the H or finishing up a Psych degree through University Park and living rent free with the parents for a bit longer. We'll see how my financial situation is by that point. I'm planning on applying with another promotions company and the record store thing is still in the works.

At any rate, I'm happy to have some direction and motivation to finally get through this and I'm thankful for all the beautiful, serendipitous experiences as well as my fuck-it-all-what's-the-worst-that-could-happen tendencies that led me to this point. Folks, I am living and it feels great.