A Rose Askew

Listening to Danzig's Mother wanting to be anywhere but where I am.

Who says we don't come with a handbook?

I N S T R U C T I O N S F O R L I F E

1. Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.

2. When you lose, don’t lose the lesson.

3. Follow the three R’s:
Respect for self,
Respect for others and
Responsibility for all your actions.

4. Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.

5. Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.

6. Don’t let a little dispute injure a great relationship.

7. When you realize you’ve made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.

8. Spend some time alone every day.

9. Open your arms to change, but don’t let go of your values.

10. Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.

11. Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get older and think back, you’ll be able to enjoy it a second time.

12. A loving atmosphere in your home is the foundation for your life.

13. In disagreements with loved ones, deal only with the current situation. Don’t bring up the past.

14. Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.

15. Be gentle with the earth.

16. Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.

17. Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.

18. Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.

19. Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon.

It's never enough...

So I finally make a decision about going back to Purdue...hand in my rentry forms...and low and behold I am still encumbered. I ripped through all of my receipts from back in the day...I was positive I spent a year eating cat food so that I could pay the fuckers off. Armed with canceled checks and old credit reports I called the A/R guy at the admissions office. Luckily the guy was really nice about whole thing, but it turns out that all those loan payments the Department of Education squeezed out of me a few years ago were NOT for the Purdue account...imagine finding out 12 years later that you still owe over $1100...AND they won't let you in until you've paid it in full first!!! I was floored...talk about taking the wind of of your sails...mine was blown out of the sea with a grenade launcher.

After violently sobbing in my car in the parking lot listening to Disturbed 's Abyss really fucking loud, I decided to go back into work and get some perspective on the whole thing...the powers that be are laughing...what's one more obstacle? I still have a headache...I hate having my resolve tested.

I wanted to start back at Purdue in January 2007...guess now I have to wait till August 2007 cause that's how long it will take for me to pay off the gorram bill. Yeah I'm paying it. My life has hit a ceiling and I want my bloody degree even if it's just to walk on stage and wipe my ass with the paper so that world knows that Purdue did not get the best of me!

Best Urinal Design

I think this just speaks for itself...this is a real men's bathroom located in a primarily female dominated corporation...I want to meet the woman who designed this!

My new diggs

Here is the floor plan for my new apartment...If you can't tell, I like open spaces with a kitchen big enough to grow an indoor garden. I'm gonna start with spinach and baby carrots. I should be getting a Southern Facing window apartment so my plants don't have to crowd the windows. I aspire someday to have my very own personal jungle...so long as the cats quit chewing on all of the monocot tropicals (spider plants and other grassy looking plants for those nonhorticultural enthusiasts). Ficus veragatis felis chewis :)

The Raven Pecks at My Door

I've started a new Tribal group called Raven's Tribe.

Why Raven?
Gee huh lets see...Ravens represent the arcane side of magick, they are messengers and tricksters, and oh yeah they are totally facinated with sparkly stuff. What better to represent a dramatic gothic tribe of belly dancers who enjoy the gypsy darkness of life?

Getting out of Dodge

I finally have a new apartment lined up...whoo hoo. Its still on the West side of Lafayette, but its away from my ghetto neighbors downstairs. Yep, I'm staying in Lafayette for a while. Its kinda a combo of the new car (2002 Saturn SL), a big raise at work, and the real prospect of going back to Purdue to finish my degree that is keeping me in Lafayette.

Check out the full Wildlife Biologist career poster and description for the School of Agriculture...is that not a sign or what?