Updating ya'll....
...on nothing much, but i just felt like posting because i've been neglecting my blog...sorry!oh yeah, i went to Chicago last weekend and came back to school Wednesday. it was cool. my best friend graduated, and her graduation was THE BOMB! she graduated from Columbia college in downtown Chicago. it was off the hook, live music, singing, theater, Blues singer Buddy Guy, a dude that rapped a poem for his late mother, just off the chains...but it's an artsy school, so go figure. it was tight, a lot more lively than my SIU graduation, but it was EXTRA long! i guess because of all of the cool stuff, lol.
we went to this Restaurant Magiannos (sp) to eat, and it was SOOOO good! we were so full after we left there. i had to clear my stomach, especially since i had some white castle the night before lol. Great Italian food...i don't know if it's authentic, but it was good either way, lol.
after that, i met up with a new friend who was cool. we went to the ESPN zone and played games and seen "Akeelah and the Bee". that movie was great! i liked how the girl overcame her fears, and how her community stood behind her. it's was better than you 'Soul Plane' type of movies.
i hung out with my best friend, but not for long since she had to work...plus her boyfriend came over, and either way we were sleepy.
i spent some time with my mama, because of course it was mother's day weekend, but not as much. besides she had to study for her finals and type up some papers. she did braid the front of my hair for me. i really need someone to braid my hair for me, i'm getting sick of the afro. this teenage girl from church braids hair, so i might let her do it. i guess it'll be back to cornrows for a while, then i gotta rock my twist again because i love them, but it take me so long to do them when i want them small.
i'm liking my job sort of, but it's hard. alot of accounting stuff, and i never thought i'd work a job like this, but it is some good experience. So i will take this experience for what it is and apply it to whatever area in my life that's coming up.
alot of my friends also graduated, aka "The hand full of black folks in the theater department", lol, and some of my friends from church. some are leaving and some are staying for a while. man it's hard having to leave friends and leave college. well maybe not hard for some people, but i know for me it is. having to start over...man, it's really hard for me. i guess that's why i haven't left from down here yet.
which brings me to something else. i guess i will be doing graduate school here. i know some people say that you should go off to a different school to do grad school, but my situation here is ok. i already have an apartment which goes by my income, and i have a job which will last for at least a year, so after that if i need another job, i can just get an assistantship. i have friends from church and a church home i love, so it will be hard to leave. i most definitely don't want to stay in Carbonhell, i mean Carbondale forever, but for the time being i do.
i do want to go back to Chicago, i love Chicago. even though i haven't done much there because i don't go out much, but i love the city, it's beautiful and so many different types of people and the different neighborhoods, although it's kinda segregated, they are so diverse...and the lakefront, and the skyline...the sports teams, and the food, and the taste of Chicago..footwork and stepping, and Chicago slang...lol...i don't know...that's just wear my family is from, though a lot of them are all over the country now...but that's where my grandparents and great grand parents on both sides went to after leaving the south in hope of a better life.....i don't know i love that city...if i wanna stick with theater though, people have been telling me i might wanna got o New York, but it is WAY too expensive there...some folks have told me since i wanna do black theater maybe to go to ATL...i went there once with my church, and i didn't really care for it...besides Chicago has a good theater scene.....but maybe my first job won't be in Chicago...but if not, i would eventually like to go back to the Chi to live...or if i was well off i wouldn't mind just having a house where ever i'ma end up at and a house in Chicago, lol...or maybe it's just that i LOVE saying i'm from Chicago, because i just think it's a cool city, and every other city just suck a** to me, lol.
i do wanna own my own theater and i will...it might be a small theater to start off with, but i will...i think i've given up on the teaching desire for now, but i still would like to have my own community arts center for black folks in the ghetto...i think we need that...there's much more to us, especially the young men, than trying to be a rapper, or b-ball or football player...and i won't just limit it to artsy stuff.....i'd through some science in there too....
i'm off work now, but i'm still here since i still don't have Internet at home...oh booo! i might can get it turned back on, but i really need to save my money up, and that's not a major need right now...besides i can get addicted to the net, so i really don't need it at home anymore...
it's Friday and i don't have anything to do! hopefully my friends from church will have something planned so i won't be bored tonight.
grad school, human resources? that's what i'm thinking about...i hope it's a wise choice.
this blog is rather random and out of order, but ya'll should know that i'm pretty random by now.
sorry for neglecting, but i be kicking it on facebook and myspace mostly, lol. but i do come to check people's blogs, but it seems that alot of my blogroll links aren't working...people deleted their blog or they don't post anymore, or they've moved and i don't have new links. it only seems like G, Sunnchine, and Reddy post, i don't know what happened to anyone else. [EDIT about 20 minutes later, lol: i guess Sunnchine is gone too! her blog is missing! dang people keep leaving! lol]
since i'm too lazy to type up a blog about something different, i'd more than likely post this on myspace too, lol.
anyways., it's time to go, it's probably raining outside and i gotta walk home..ugh...
well anyways, peace out...dang, i just realized i've had this dang on blog for over 4 years....at least i don't complain as much like i use to...but i guess i can cuz it's my blog and i can do what i want! hahahahahahaha! lol, ya'll have a good, safe, and blessed weekend! :-)
