Thursday, August 21, 2008

How to live life after art school (quick first draft)

1) Go on Vacation with your wife
2) Go on vacation without your wife and wonder if you should have married that girl from your home town.
3) Meet up with your wife after vacation and note during sex that the love she once had for you is gone.
4) Apply for jobs, because you need one to eat, in any field 'cause school didn't really train you for one.
5) Get a job a job that doesn't pay much in a field you never really thought about working in, in this case television news.
6) Wonder how Art Stardom will Occur.
7)Watch in pain and shock as your wife leaves you.
8) Hang out for a while in your college town reeling in pain and shock for a few months
9) Get a few promotions at work because going to work is all you know how to do, though suicidal depression is becoming a vocation all of it's own.
10) The day you finalize your divorce papers quit your job and move home because you really need to get laid.
11) Tell everyone you are planning to move to New York. They will think you are a bad ass art star.
12) Get laid upon return home
13) Travel the east coast and spend your savings.
14) Move in with some chic and make out with everyone you can.
15) move in two months to live with some other chic.
16)Make out some more, open a business with that chic date some one else, quit business because you have made business partner crazy.
17) Move in with the girl"you should have married" from line 1.
18) Quickly see how that was not a good idea.
19)Start working for the girl-you-began-dating's mom
20)Move in two a cheap studio apartment above the furniture store you now work at.
21) Remind yourself that you are 31 years old with a college degree, Summa Cum Laude
22) Think of Hank
23)Begin contemplating suicide again.
24)Shortly after number 14 in this list get sober, again.
25) Tell yourself it's going to be ok, I dare you.
26) Through out this list figure out how to make art, but don't go to art shows or befriend other artists, be sure to stay insulated in the friends you had before college.
27) Constantly compare your life to the one before divorce.
28) List everything that is wrong with your life, create an imaginary bat for each listing, hit yourself with them constantly.
29)Note that: you are alive, give yourself a fucking break and live, each day is only as beautiful as you notice it is.
30) Have a beautiful day in your notably fucked up life doing the things you do everyday.
31) Got to go to work downstairs now, bye bye.