Musings on Graduating College and a Little Blogger R&R..

So I've been looking at this blog for the last few days and I have decided that I really don't like the design of it. Like seriously don't like it, there's something about it that just "isn't me" to use that cliche term, but I think that it's true. It's almost summer time now and I'm getting closer to becoming an old bitty everyday and I really need to get this cooking/writing/blogging thing on the road because let's be honest...cooking will probably be the way I earn money after college because from what I have seen from friends who have graduated over the last 3.5 years, the following is an equation for at least the first 1-2 years following college graduation:

Life After College = Trolling the streets for any scraps of jobs that we can find + Realizing that the $80000 you spent on a college education was only good enough to get a part-time receptionist/serving job + Sitting on your 4-year old broken, crusty, college futon in your one bedroom apartment scarfing down a package of 17 cent chicken flavored ramen like it was your last meal. Oh--and let's not forget that this is all taking place while you listen the 45 year-old divorced car salesman downstairs who also refuses to close his blinds while changing, sob into his can of keystone ice while listening to 'Free Bird' on repeat..

...Depressing, but unfortunately true. (Unless you have a business degree from what I've witnessed)

Now for those of you who (like myself) who aren't business minded and couldn't resist the urge to get a  degree in arts and the humanities, all is not lost. I'm a firm believer that everyone should have a least one serious hobby/trade that they could potentially make enough money to survive off of just in case that dream job doesn't quite materialize immediately after college. I really think our generation has lost a lot of patience for more time consuming things in life. I mean, if I can't use my phone to find something in 2 minutes on Wikipedia then I normally forget about it and categorize it into that "ehh..it's not so important" section of my brain. There is something seriously wrong with this people! So in order to make this the best blog you ever did see, I will be taking at least a week off from blogging because I really want to take the time to read some good food books, redesign this blog, attempt to make a steady schedule for posting here, and decide what direction I want to take this blog. So I will see you cool cats later after I practice a few recipes and work on this whole "food photography" thing that I am absolutely terrible with..(I REALLLLY hate watching my food getting cold while I'm trying to take lackluster pictures of it). And since this post was all about how potentially terrifying the "life after college shell-shock" might be. I'll leave off with a loose quotation of my favorite fictional 10-year old, Bart Simpson, for all my friends who graduated this weekend and have expressed your sense of panic of being an official "grown up" now:

"George Burns was right.. Life After College is a hideous bitch goddess." --- Bartholomew J. Simpson (just to clarify, "Life After College" was originally "Show Business", I'm not trying to get sued by FOX...)