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May 18, 2007
I Spy
I'm drinking out of my official C.I.A. coffee mug this morning. Sadly, that's about as close as I'll come to using my degree in criminal justice. Oh, you didn't know? Well, yes. You don't think I'd call myself a superhero without the credentials to back it up, do you?
I started out majoring in elementary education, but I was never really into it. Then, I had a bad break-up, so I changed my hair and my career goals. (Hey, we all deal with our issues differently.) So, I decided on the ever-useful field of criminal justice. Yeah. It was a tad... random. I wanted to work for the C.I.A. I wasn't thinking very far into the future, of a family and all that. I just wanted to kick some keister. Then I met King Pen, and suddenly my expertise seemed a bit irrelevant. Unless he was masterminding some criminal activity. And trust me, I checked him out. He was clean. No ties to the seedy underworld. No need for kicking keisters.
Now here I am, with this admittedly cool, but totally useless, degree. So I drinks mah coffee, daydream about when I used to take tae kwon do, and live vicariously through the likes of Buffy, Lara Croft, and Sydney Bristow.
Sometimes I wish I'd gone to culinary school. Or the Advanced Laundry Academy, or Carseat Technical Institute. Would come in handy these days! Since knowing how to kill a man with a paperclip and a rubberband hasn't turned out to be so useful. Yet.
Okay pumpkin heads, I have stuff to do. I am packing the kids suitcases today, which means a foray into Laundry Land. A scary place when you don't have the proper degree. I'll catch you later.
Hi-Yah!
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I love reading your blog! You are hilarious!!!
Posted by: lori at May 19, 2007 12:27 AM
You kill me! Thanks for making me laugh. Pretty cool that you did that:) Erik and I have talked about him doing something like that and going civilian. But we would never see him and I'm not a cactus. I need to be watered with A LOT of attention. Anyway, you are an awfully cool girl.
Posted by: Gypsy at May 19, 2007 5:16 PM
My husband also has a criminal justice degree gathering dust. Don't tell anybody, but I think he tears up a little when we're watching 24. Y'all should get together sometime and talk shop.
Posted by: emily at May 20, 2007 8:10 AM
