I am the most anti-social extrovert you've ever met. Admittedly, I don't do the whole "get to know you" stage very well. However, I am very loud and outgoing with my family and friends. Somehow, this personality has landed me a bartending job in order to keep my cell phone on and my cats fed while I work towards a higher degree. I can't imaine not knowing what thoroughly thrills oneself to the point of tears when it comes to everyday work and a career. I think that the majority of our society is stuck between a rock and this so-called hard place. Luckily, a crappy high school teacher wasn't enough to deter me from chemistry and I have been set ever since. On the flip side of the same coin, I've been blessed with enough inspiring teachers that I've decided I want to do the same. Due to a plethora of horror stores from my immediate and extended family regarding "chilrens" (except for my niece - while she is certainly a poopie pants, she is perfect none-the-less) in the classroom, my aspirations have settled on teaching adults (if by age alone) and no less.
Some people try to tell me that I have OCD, ADHD, and a whole slew of other disorders. Personally, I just know that:
- I am a type A (for better or worse) with my own pace for the task at hand.
- I love cats and that doesn't make me an 80 year old on the inside.
- I love color and think "non colors" such as black, white, silver and tan should be banned.
- I can't stand carpet, cotton balls, dry towels, felt, cordouroy, socks, or q-tips.
- there is very little a day at the beach cannot fix.
- in my eyes, Mariah Carey (try as she might) can do no wrong.
- I've lived a vagrant-like lifestyle for the past 5 years and am ready to sit still (figuratively).
And, for the record, I have never even seen a Star Wars movie. Instead, one of my cats had a funny shaped head when she was a kitten and earned the name Yoda.
