A Brief, and Far From All Inclusive, Summary of Me
I honestly didn't know what to do. For the last several years, I've had so many frustrations that built up because of the way things are now. (Is that vague enough for you?) So I decided to start a blog about it. To get some of my frustrations out. Now, I've started blogs before, at several different times in my life, but I've never stuck with them. Mostly because I didn't want to take the time to actually figure out the different design aspects and build tools of blogs. This time I may play around with it, but I think I'm going to try to just focus on the writing and maybe I will be able to continue this.
First a little background about me. I went to a small school (14 people in my graduating class), I was Valedictorian, I played softball, basketball, track, band, academic bowl, and was in art club. I went to Stephens College, on a sports/academic scholarship, which at the time was the largest scholarship any student received there from combined scholarships. Even with this I graduated with a huge debt. Graduated Suma Cum Laude with a BFA degree in Creative Writing degree and a minor (whatever that means in actual life beyond "I took these classes and it was not enough to get a degree but it was a significant amount,") in math, biology, and chemistry. You might say I'm well rounded, and not just because I've been very overweight my whole life. (Right, how much of an athlete could I be with such a big BMI? All-Stater actually, my college batting average was over 300.) Of course, Stephens is a very liberal Liberal Arts School that is all female, and of course, there was/is no job market for someone with a creative writing degree, no matter how many minors you have. So, I got the glorified position of a receptionist at a doctor's office. With that background, is it any surprise that I was unhappy? With my background I knew I could do more. I went back to school at the University of Missouri (I've actually been to 8 or 9 different colleges in total now) and got my BS in nursing, got hired from the same doctor's office that I had proved myself a reliable and capable worker at as a receptionist, now as a clinic nurse, and then within 6 months presented the owners of the practice to pay for my graduate degree as a Nurse Practitioner if I would work for them for 5 years. Did I mention that during this, I self-published a young adult novel, named PAWN, because I didn't have enough going on at once.
So now I'm sort of happy because I can fund my creative work with my actual job because, I'm no J.K. Rowling...not that I'd want to be, because she's a bit crazy. But, I feel unrest within, more and more. Frustration with the world and the people in it. I wanted to DO something, but I felt helpless. So I decided to start here. Not that I will likely ever have a following or become all that big. Oh and if you didn't know what the name of my blog means, it is Atypical Conservative Writer.
First a little background about me. I went to a small school (14 people in my graduating class), I was Valedictorian, I played softball, basketball, track, band, academic bowl, and was in art club. I went to Stephens College, on a sports/academic scholarship, which at the time was the largest scholarship any student received there from combined scholarships. Even with this I graduated with a huge debt. Graduated Suma Cum Laude with a BFA degree in Creative Writing degree and a minor (whatever that means in actual life beyond "I took these classes and it was not enough to get a degree but it was a significant amount,") in math, biology, and chemistry. You might say I'm well rounded, and not just because I've been very overweight my whole life. (Right, how much of an athlete could I be with such a big BMI? All-Stater actually, my college batting average was over 300.) Of course, Stephens is a very liberal Liberal Arts School that is all female, and of course, there was/is no job market for someone with a creative writing degree, no matter how many minors you have. So, I got the glorified position of a receptionist at a doctor's office. With that background, is it any surprise that I was unhappy? With my background I knew I could do more. I went back to school at the University of Missouri (I've actually been to 8 or 9 different colleges in total now) and got my BS in nursing, got hired from the same doctor's office that I had proved myself a reliable and capable worker at as a receptionist, now as a clinic nurse, and then within 6 months presented the owners of the practice to pay for my graduate degree as a Nurse Practitioner if I would work for them for 5 years. Did I mention that during this, I self-published a young adult novel, named PAWN, because I didn't have enough going on at once.
So now I'm sort of happy because I can fund my creative work with my actual job because, I'm no J.K. Rowling...not that I'd want to be, because she's a bit crazy. But, I feel unrest within, more and more. Frustration with the world and the people in it. I wanted to DO something, but I felt helpless. So I decided to start here. Not that I will likely ever have a following or become all that big. Oh and if you didn't know what the name of my blog means, it is Atypical Conservative Writer.
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