Wisdom from the Watercooler

As with everything else in my life these days, my intentions and my reality were not communicating with one another.  My intentions did not include taking this much time off in between posts, but rather to keep my amazingly deep HR thoughts going between semesters. However, as noted by the nearly 4 months in between posts, that did not happen quite as planned.

I have lived for years with the notion that “not everyone gets to have their dream job” or “you are far too old to go back to school”; you name the limiting thought, and I thought it. My experience as an undergrad was a very challenging one, as I had to drop out for what was supposed to be three semesters but ended up being five years. I eventually graduated successfully, eight years after I should have, and with rather good grades. But after that experience, the thought of ever going back to school was not a comforting thought. Consequently, I resigned myself to the fact that a Bachelor’s Degree from a well-known and highly regarded University was good enough.

I guess I should probably lay out the purpose of this blog that again, I never thought I would have.  I really should have done this in the last post, but I was distracted by thoughts of Matthew McConaughey and Hallmark Movies.  Because clearly, I have a thing for crappy movies starring good looking men.  Or perhaps I just have no taste, it’s a tossup really.  Quick side note – I think it is interesting that McConaughey shows up in every spell check I have ever encountered.  And not because I type it a lot (I do – I admit it), but rather because I was on a library computer recently and it popped up when I spelled McConaughey wrong.  I was checking out his latest book; feel free to judge.  I am still way down on the list for Britney’s book and I wasn’t in the mood to read something that requires any thinking.  I am doing enough of that in school these days. 

The title is fitting and very possibly accurate.

You see – I never intended on having a blog, unless you count the time I was seriously considering watching every Matthew McConaughey movie and critiquing it in blog format once a week. It really is a brilliant idea and one I really should do someday, so don’t steal my brilliant idea. Seriously – I will use all the money my EAP will cover for an attorney to defend my somewhat clever piece of intellectual property.