I’m sitting here enjoying one of my Christmas gifts. Fight Club on DVD. It’s just classic. I had been hounding my dad to see this movie and my mom finally bought it for me so we can watch it. I’m listening to the commentary by Brad Pitt, David Fincher, Edward Norton, and Helena Bonham Carter and it’s just great. There’s so much more to this film than you can ever get in the first couple times watching it.
On to that ever so famous Christian holiday. If you know me, or if you’ve read my bio then you know I’m not Christian and therefore I shouldn’t be celebrating Christmas. Unfortunately, I don’t have the heart to tell my parents. And actually I’m going to miss it. It’s not so much the presents, but how everyone is genuinely nice. Anyway, I’ll give a rundown of the gifts I got. A Pizazz pizza cooker, a $20 gift card to Best Buy, a $25 gift card to Sam Goody, Two Towers Extended Edition DVD, Fight Club DVD, The Matrix Reloaded DVD, a 128MB PNY USB 2.0 Thumb Drive, a MN Wild jersey, a MN Wild hat, a pair of MN Wild pajama pants, a pair of MN Wild shorts, a MN Wild long sleeve shirt, tickets to a MN Wild game, Joe Boxer pajama pants, Adidas cologne, a pair of khaki pants, a pair of boxers, a $10 gift certificate to the local movie theater, a sweater, and a bunch of stocking stuffers. All in all, I was really surprised at what I got. It was the first time in a long time I didn’t know so much exactly what I was getting. Like I said before, going without Christmas is going to seem unnatural the first few years, but I can truly say I could go without all the presents and the commercialism. The shear amount of pressure to buy, buy, buy is sickening. People overspend themselves entirely way too much around this time of year. Do some research, and you’ll quickly learn that much of the world’s debt is accumulated during the month of December. A sad, but true, fact.
Fall semester grades came out today. I managed a 3.25 GPA this semester. I was pretty surprised I did so well. I think this is my best semester yet. The thing is, I didn’t feel like I worked that hard in classes. I had two classes I was just dreading because I knew they would be very hard and they turned out to be not so bad. I guess I can appreciate the work I put into them now. The grades certainly made my parents happy. I think I might even get a break on my car insurance. This brings me to my last semester of college… maybe. I’m definitely on the lookout for a job. In fact to today I applied for a web design job with Polaris Snowmobiles. But I saw way too many of my friends end up unemployed or working somewhere that you don’t need a 4 year degree. I’ve got a backup plan. If by the end of March or beginning of April, I don’t have anything promising, I’m going to go to school for another year or go to grad school. I figure I can take out more loans and I won’t be so much worse off. Chances are the job market will be better in time, I’d be qualified for more, and I get more time to learn some things I don’t get taught in class like web design or graphics design. I’d be more than happy to land a job in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area making enough to pay the bills. In fact, that’s my ideal future. Chances are, things won’t quite happen that way, but a guy can hope.
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