The Search For Something To Do
What would you like me to say here? My name is above, no relation to the Hardy boys, I promise. I'm a 25 year old student who got his start in college slightly later in life.<br><br>I've always spent a lot of time around words. Playing with words, disassembling words, putting them together. I've spoken others words on stage, sung words in music, recited words in poetry, and even threw a few words together into a manuscript or two. I've always wanted to work with language, and good thing too, since Its one of the few things I am both fairly good at and have a desire to learn further. <br><br>I actually dropped out of school a few years back, and lived out two years living in Seattle. I was hoping to find something there. I got into writing, did some poetry, grew out my beard and mustache for the first time, and then ran out of money. When I came back to Spokane, I decided that the smart thing would be to go back to school, and since then I've decided that since I want to work with words, I might as well broaden the horizon of which words I have a mastery over.<br><br>I'd taken language classes before in high school. Japanese, of which I retain only the basic seed of knowledge ready to blossom when I'm ready to tend to it once again. In college I decided on French, a language a lot closer to English than Japanese is, but no less alien to my ear.<br><br>I'm honestly not sure about the future. That's what this project is about. If I can learn French and prove mastery over words through language barriers, I could make a career out of it. The world is small, and there's so little room for more than one language. If I can perhaps ease up the load by working as a translator or interpreter, that might end up being a good calling. Not only that, but for each language that I get under my belt, the wider the entertainment experience of my life becomes without needing the crutch of subtitles to understand what's happening.<br><br>I'm still tentative about some things, and that's something I need to work on. I need to be gung-ho! I need to find out now what I'm going to do, and then do it. That's a part of what this project represents, to prove I have what it takes. <br>