major vent sesh

I went in to work today and my shift was from 1-5. I ended up closing, so I got off at 8:30. I am only getting paid for 6.5 hours though because I had to take an hour lunch break. It's mandatory. So I enjoyed a veggie sub from Subway and some french fries. Mmm! I didn't really have a great day though because I was stuck in a corner processing all day. I mean all but like the last hour and a half of my shift. Doing that puts me in a pretty antisocial mood, so some of my coworkers were really getting on my nerves. Especially the 19 year old punk who told me I looked "old, like 25", then asked me if I was in school. When I said no he said, well are you married? When I said no to that as well he acted as if I was a waste of space. I wanted to drop kick him. And then I wanted to tell him that 25 was NOT old, and that he could go to hell and take his two years of education from PSU with him. 

I HATE it when people act like you aren't shit if you don't have a college degree. No, I do not have a piece of paper declaring that I spent four years at a university drinking beer and having casual sex and occasionally studying... all on my daddy's dime, or a piece of paper legally binding me to a man, but that doesn't make me any less of a person. When I was in college, I was paying for it myself each semester and I wasn't sure of what I wanted to do with my life or my education, so I made the decision to stop going until I made up my mind. What is so wrong with that? I didn't want to wake up one day and suddenly realize that I hated my life and career, but feel stuck with it because I had a degree that cost me $40,000.

I also get so sick of this stupid thing we like to call "the American dream." I'm sorry, WHO'S dream is this?! Graduate from college, get married, buy a house, get a dog, make a baby... it's such bullshit! If someone is 30 years old, still single, no kids, living in a studio apartment and having a good time just living life, they are viewed as irresponsible. You know what I think is irresponsible? Someone getting married because they think it's what you're supposed to do once you get to be a certain age, and then having a baby, again because that's what you should do, and then five or ten years down the road getting a divorce because you realize you've made a big mistake. 

People completely piss me off, or as my dad might say, people really "frost my ass" with this whole, "When  you get pregnant, you get married" thing and "Marriage is for a man and a woman" thing... WHY do YOU care who marries who?! Why?! How does Bill marrying Jim affect the world AT ALL?! And why is it any of anyone's business if a man and a woman want to get married when they are ready to get married, rather than because they are having a baby together? Getting married doesn't fix anything, it doesn't make a parent love their child more.   Nothing gets on my nerves more than an intolerant, conservative, self-righteous and pretentious a-hole who pushes these ridiculous ideas on people. 

I do personally know (and love) some people who are my complete political opposite, and that is their right and their choice. I can agree to disagree. So if you're reading this, and you are one of my political opposites, please don't be offended. But this is my blog, and I had a crappy day that started with some jerk telling me I looked old and being shocked that I didn't finish college, and it snowballed from there. I promise to make my next blog a happier one.

xoxo,

t