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Pensando en el futuro (Pensanta pri la estonteco)

A few days ago I was thinking about what career I want to go into. Well, the notion of being an English teacher sort of hit me. A teacher? Me? I didn’t know why I felt I should be a teacher. They’re underpaid, overworked, underappreciated, and also underpaid. I would have to take lots of English classes (reading boring books) and lots of teaching classes (learning how to teach). I don’t particularly like teaching things to people anyway. I couldn’t get the thought out of my head, though.

Finally, I realized what it was all about. I wanted to be a teacher because then I would never have to leave school and join the “real world.” I could stay behind, in my own little world, forever. If you ask me, that’s the sign of a wimpy subconscious screaming for help. So I basically need to face my fear of getting a real job, or else I’m going to be lounging around the house (or apartment) grading papers when I’m forty and going to bed at eight o’clock. Did I mention I wouldn’t have a lot of money? I have to think of some good options.

In the tiny world of good things, it turns out that the No S Diet has continued to take some weight off me somewhere. In fact, I lost another 7 lbs. last month, for a total of 16 lbs. in 2 months. I wonder when I’ll have no more weight to lose? Hopefully it will be whenever I’ve made the diet’s points of eating fewer and healthier foods into a habit.

One thing I specifically requested as a Christmas gift was a calendar. In years past I had gotten Beatles calendars, along with Beatles T-shirts and Beatles everything. On Christmas 2004 I got a scroll-type calendar from a Chinese restaurant, showing all the days of the year and everything. I didn’t get a monthly calendar where you can fill things in for the days, so my dad got a NASCAR one for me from his work. It wasn’t till the end of November that I realized that all the pictures were of the same guy.

For 2006 calendars I’ve managed to pull in a better haul. I got another Chinese calendar (from the same restaurant) and a calendar of concept cars, which are at least interesting and cool to look at. If I felt like buying my own, I would probably go for something else, but the ones I have now will do just fine. Does anybody have a new calendar that’s interesting?

Have you ever caught yourself saying, “You know the movie I’m talking about, right? The one with the guy… with the hair?” Maybe What Was That Movie can help.

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