Clearer Sailing

You ever feel like you're about 10 years or so behind the rest of the class? I've always felt that way. It started shortly after high school. I didn't receive any decent advice from my school counselor, so I only applied to one college, which I didn't get into. I didn't fully start working on my Bachelor's degree until I was well into my mid-to-late twenties (including a two year long misguided attempt at stand-up comedy.) I didn't meet the woman of my dreams until my early thirties. Now it's a new year, 2004, and I'll be finishing the training I need to get into graphic design for publishing. If I'm lucky and the school that I'm getting my Computer Graphics Specialist certificate from allows me to test out of having to take Drawing 1 again. I would imagine having a degree in Illustration would allow me to do that. I start the Spring semester a week from next Tuesday (1/13/04.)

I really want to get into magazine or newspaper publishing - I would LOVE to be working for a newspaper like the Dallas Morning News or, failing that, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. I'm hopeful that I can find work at this.

I really feel that 2004 is going to be a turnaround year for a lot of people, including me. Maybe it's the fact that it's a leap year and an Olympic year that is making me feel this way, but I really feel like I and pretty much everyone I know has worked their respective ways through a fog of struggle and that now it promises to be clearer sailing. That's my hope for the new year. Clearer sailing.... and a new computer one of these days :)

Good luck to all who read this, and take care,

~Rob