real talk, though:
my future is looking really good, and it's making me feel guilty because i've never been a particularly hard worker or even a good student. like i've been high in about 75% of all the classes i've attended during college. I've got a 3.5 at this school i just transfered to because I lucked up in the classes i took for that one semester, but people see my gpa and think i'm some dediated student. I major in english, which is one of those majors that people assume you're either going to go to law/grad school or teach because there's no jobs for it. I'm about to enter my last semester of college and now work at a publishing company that is waiting to hire me full time. On top of that I'm applying for a program at Columbia University in NYC to get certified training in publishing, something that could lead me to being 23, living in New York City, and making good money from the start of my professional life. I actually have a good shot at this program because I have a year of professional experience. Yesterday i was a week late with my final paper, a 12 page essay that is supposed to be in lieu of the final exam. This class is taught by one of the hardest profs at my school, a respected author who made it out of Guyana in the 60's to travel the world and write novels. I called her to see if there was a point in even trying to finish the paper, and she told me "make sure to send it to me by tommorow so you can keep that B." Mind you i was a week late with the FINAL at this point. I am smart, though, and have always been good at making a good professional impression. I truly feel like I got the job from just hand shakes and saying the right thing to the right people, but apparently I'm actually pretty good at my job, and I really do find it mad interesting. Everyone I know who worked hard throughout school getting that engineering or finance is looking at moving back home, possibly teaching until they can find something in there field, meanwhile I'm setting up this awesome life in NYC and smoking sour diesel almost daily.
I feel like karma is going to get me, so I'm trying to become a more responsible person before I find myself with too much freedom, too much money, too many broads, and too much free time on my hands.
also this:
there's this dude that owes me money. i bailed him out of jail TWICE and he stiffed me on some "i gotta pay lawyer fees" type stuff. this was over the summer, so i figured i'd cut my losses and keep it moving, because i can't afford to go to jail for stabbin some dude up no romo just because i wanted to keep i real. The thing is, though, that even though he's a horrible drug dealer, he's friends with all the weed sellers in my neighborhood. So if I buy weed I gotta risk running into him. luckily it hasn't happened, but I'm worried that if I ever see him i'm going to throw it all away in order to protect my own pride. My best friend couldn't understand why i wouldn't buy weed from certain people because I knew that he was on some best friend steez with them, but I don't care if my mans buys from him. I tried to tell him but he just looks at me like "yo life is not Boardwalk Empire." I don't know why I can't let it go, but I really can't. Like yesterday i went with him to grab from this guy's really good friend, who was there through the whole situation on threeway from jail and even putting in himself on bail. I been told this dude i don't #%!@ with him and he got mad like this is out of nowhere. So anyway we do the deal car-to-car and the whole time I'm just lookin at this dude in his eye with a smirk. I made sure to say the first word and i was like "Wassup? What's poppin?" just waiting for him to do something off so I could t-bone his car. All he said was "Ask your mans, this that diesel!" and i was kind of pissed off because just last week he was callin me all sorts of names and i thought he was willing to take it there once we met up.