Email from a school buddy: “School’s out. So what kind of trouble should we get into next?”

My reply: “Let’s go hang out under the railroad bridge and ambush potential [web design] clients.”

Okay, so we decided that meeting for breakfast would be safer. But what *is* next? Last year, when school got out, I spent about the next six weeks in a total fog. I had only taken one class that winter (long boring story) and I had quit The Craziest Job On The Face Of The Planet the fall before. That was all good for a while because as it turned out I spent most of the winter commuting to either the Henry Ford Hoosegow or the Yoop. For a little while, I thought I might have to actually drop that one class but I stuck it out and, in the end, I was glad I did. But then school was over and I had no job and my dad and my brother and all kinds of other people and aminals I loved were dead and I couldn’t focus on anything except driving and the only reason I was still getting out of bed at 0-dark-thirty and walking every day was because I am *programmed* to get out of bed at 0-dark-thirty and walk every day. Sheesh, was that sentence long enough?

Anyway, after a summer of shuttling back and forth to the beach, a year of *intense* classes, and a dream trip to California, I am moving along under my own steam again. Er, sort of, but “sort of” is a definite improvement. This was a very successful school year and not only in terms of grades. What’s next? I’m not completely sure but at least this year I have a *list*:

• Dredge up Jason’s old lectures and regain fluency with javascript and the DOM.
• While I’m at it, I should probably do the same thing with the CSS positioning lectures.
• Work on my internship.
• Learn php.
• Learn more than the basics of flash actionscript.
• Tear apart the wordpress file structure and style sheet and attain fluency at designing themes.
• Redesign my blahg. Or maybe I should say *design*, since I did the current “design” in about five minutes.
• Work on my business site.
• Create a web and/or powerpoint presentation of the Twinz of Terror’s north-country trail trip from L. Michigan to L. Superior.
• Shuttle up and down the I75 SUV Speedway to Houghton Lake and the beach (duh).
• Figger out how the heck to get my beeyootyful new Macbook to connect to The Internets up there on The Shores of Gitchee Gumee since it doesn’t have a modem. Um, Apple? What were you thinking?
• Keep on working on The Landfill. Five minutes at a time if that’s what it takes.
• Flute, beads, fabric collage, finish knitting my socks, keep up with The New Yorker, read Harry Potter 7 and who knows what else, etc., etc.
• Hang around under the railroad bridge and ambush potential [web design] clients.

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