Tuesday, October 21, 2008

A&F

I start my new job today at Abercrombie & Fitch. I think it will be a fun place to work, and I like most of their clothes. Ironically, I've never shopped there. Everything is too expensive, and I noticed that, with my employee discount, the clothes are almost reasonably priced. I suppose working in an outlet store has corrupted my idea of what I should pay for clothes. Hopefully this new job won't affect my involuntarily acquired frugality for apparel shopping.
I am mostly looking forward to working in retail again. I enjoy it much more than the food service post I've been in. Although I am starting at Abercrombie, I don't expect it will replace what I have been making at Cotton Patch Cafe, and I believe I'll be keeping both jobs for now. I'm only going to work one day a week at the restaurant, and the rest I'll leave open for A&F or to pick up extra shifts.

I should probably get some sleep now. Although my English class isn't meeting tomorrow morning I do have some math homework and stuff to do tomorrow before math and my first day at Abercrombie.
Goodnight.

Thursday, October 16, 2008

Expectations.

My first semester in college is halfway done. While I am enjoying being at school, and though I am enjoying my classes, I am feeling somewhat disheartened. I really was hoping that my major would be much more art related. I suppose I should have known this before, but it does nothing to help with the disappointment.
Am I the only one who would have expected a web DESIGN program to be art-related? I am not even two months into school, yet I already want to do something different. I enjoy my classes, but it feels just like high school. I'm not exactly sure what I had expected, but things haven't caught up to those expectations yet. I feel like I should have listened to my cousins, Alyssa and CT, about choosing a school. I talk to Deanna about her college experiences so far at UT at Austin, and feel myself becoming envious. She tells me about how exciting her classes are, how they give her new ideas, and how she has fun cooking for her seventy people in her co-op. I don't know if that's what I expected college to be like, but it sounds incomparably better than how I've spent the semester so far. When I'm not in class learning, or reviewing more like it, I'm usually at work, and if I'm not at work, I'm sitting in my room alone on my computer.
I find myself wanting to be challenged, to learn something new, to create art, to do something, to meet interesting people, or at least have friends in Waco. I'm tired of sitting in my room on Facebook. I'm sick of going over basic things in class.
When does it get better?

First Blog.

I suppose I have to start somewhere. My name is Jonathan Krugman, I've never yet blogged, yet here I am, starting a blog. I hope to become a better writer, share ideas, and relieve boredom through this blog.

This is starting to sound lame.
I hope it gets better as I have more posts.
We'll see...