Tremendous excitement within July 6, 2008

I’ve been working on working on being more in touch with the world. None of that crazy hippie kind of shit, but like news and stuff. I hate not being able to be part of a conversation because you just have idea what’s going on.

I figured a good place to start is geography. I used to kill it in school. I could fill in an entire African map. I could name all the capitals in South America. Fuck Asia; I never knew there was a place named Cambodia til I met a girl in college from there and now I’m left to believe that all women from Cambodia are physically intimidating but gorgeous. So they’ll woo a man then break his neck when he starts acting up. But anyway, I have a brain for memorizing things like maps.

In 8th grade my social studies teacher liked to have us make semantic maps about different things and then present them in class. I had a skill for mapping out any area of the US without distorting the last state drawn in. Needless to say I was student of the month after my phenomonal interpretation of Manifest Destiny in map form. I’m amazing. Or at least was. I can’t even name half the state capitals now. Sad.

A good place to start is the former Soviet satellites. Half, well actually maybe more than half, didn’t exist when I was learning about this area geographically. I found a little quiz online to see what I did know and it was nothing. So I found a map and got to studying it. I copied it and began getting to know the area and realized that Kosovo wasn’t on there. I didn’t even know that they only declared themselves independent of Serbia only a few months ago. So there I go, learning! I’m all about southeast Asia now. With all the natural disasters plummeling this area I figured I should be able to locate these places. A guy from Singapore I work with asked me if I thought Singapore was part of China. I immediately said no, but can’t say that was the truth. And until right now, I thought it was a lot closer…and bigger.

I think I should make my very own encyclopedia of things I’m relearning. I’m probably going to wind up writing reports on a lot of these places just to learn more about them. That would actually be an amazing thing for me to do, being that International Relations is my degree. Funny how it still interests me. I think because it was never shoved down my throat and its quite impossible for me to find a job without a second degree. So having it become more than an interest in my life is unlikely.

It’s too bad that by the end of next week I’ll lose a lot of steam on something. And this is a perfect example of how medication can change my life that’s plagued with this silly disorder. I bet I would have a job if I had motivation through pills.