Mostly unknown kid plays that are cheap for the school to license.

Black Hand dodges right into the line of fire:

I was in band and choir, and the Chess Club.

....and dodges again.



He then powers up to his full Totemic Power....




....fuels up.....




....and proceeds to piss the forest on fire!!

So I'm no longer a ball of redheaded fury and wrath, lol

You aren't?


YAAAAY!

SPEW!!!! OMG, I'm dying here! I see no head in that man's future, ROFL !!!!

"My hair! My hairs on fire! What the..."




This post has been edited by mALX: Sep 18 2013, 09:24 PM

Indeed!

In fact, I would daresay....


....you look positively glowing!


*Runs Away*



This post has been edited by Black Hand: Sep 18 2013, 09:33 PM

Words to the wise, Rohirrim...

Always keep a 4.0 GPA
Do a lot of extra-curriculars (1-2 a semester is wise).
Do a lot of community service (I'd advising raking up at least 250 hours a year, but if you can push higher, go for it).

Trust me on this one, it'll make your life far easier down the road when you can go to any school entirely on scholarship.

I actually do a lot of volunteer work around town.

More words of the wise:

Don't be surprised when a four-year university degree in an unmarketable skill wouldn't impress an Assistant Manager that barely speaks english at McDonald's either.

As my father put it:

"Be an artist, absolutely. Pursue your dreams, life is rather pointless besides. Just don't be a starving artist. All these romantic stories about artists starving for their art in the slums of Paris, fail to mention these guys had some pretty severe mental problems as well."

"Get a day job, strum your guitar at night. Eat well, because you'll need the energy to perform and walk around when all your money went into the rent you paid to have a roof over your head and you can't take the bus. You might fail to achieve your dream, but you will never regret trying too."

I need to clip this and send it to my son. I've been begging him to get a degree in something marketable, and take the music classes as extra curriculars rather than making it his major. I don't want to squelch his dreams, but want him to have an income that will support the dreams in case they never pan out.

"I'd rather be a starving artist than succeed at getting f*cked." -Macklemore

That's a great quote!

Now, what aisle can I find fabric softener on?

A37, past the makeup XD

From God, to my Dad, to me, to you, to your son. Do with it as you please.

@LizzieKins

Dude, Mackelmore is cool and all that. But he's an artist with a Record Deal...he's kinda already successful at getting screwed. Artists don't make crap for their work. I feel bad on the one hand,...but that quote lacks severely in life experience.

And I'm not saying that you, or me, or anyone should ever betray their dreams.

But, there is a way in which they can and will be achieved. Neglecting basic, everyday needs, is not that path. Sure some people take a gamble here and there, and they have wonderful success stories, but for every one of those, there are 99,999 attempts that fail.

Usually miserably.

In example:

"Kid! You make that guitar sing! I'm going to make you a rockstar! I'll send a car to pick you up tonight! What's your address?"

"The dumpster in the alley between 45th and Wabash. Where the restaurant doesn't lock their trash so I have something to eat every night."

"...."

The real success stories are the ones where people didn't give up.

They wrote a great book and twenty publishers reject them. The twenty first took a chance and BAM! Harry Potter.

This post has been edited by Black Hand: Sep 18 2013, 11:22 PM

I'll take the f*ing; you have to have something first to be f*d out of it, lol.

I thought Macklemore was an indie artist. He had a chance to sign with Jimmy Iovine but declined. That's where that quote came from.

I'm already in debt $6,000 for trying to chase my dreams. Which was to get a degree. Well, I failed. It's not as easy as 1 2 3. Cost has gone up in everything. Were I to try again, I couldnt get a scholarship because of how in debt I am. Because I flunked out for poor attendance. (Turns out having a newborn and going to school was a stupid idea. Three days with no sleep on a regular basis makes for poor studying atmosphere.)

Will I try again later? Sure, if it suits me. I want a degree in English, so I can have more credibility as an author. Hell, I want a degree in SOMETHING because most places don't even care what degree you have, as long as you've got one.

So, for now, at 23 with a husband and child, I'm stuck. I literally have no way forward until I can find some sort of help paying off my debt. And unless I want to miss my son's whole childhood, I can't get a second job.

I'm trying to not give up so soon, but it's hard.

http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/sites-that-pays-you-to-blog/

http://www.etsy.com/search?q=calligraphy&a...&ship_to=US

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=get+paid+to+write+online

Why not get out of debt and pursue your dream at the same time?

The positivity of Capitalism is that you can trade anything for anything.

This post has been edited by Black Hand: Sep 18 2013, 11:38 PM

Yeah honestly if you go to school at least get a useful degree. There's a woman I work with who complains that she put years into college and can't find a good job.

Her degree? Theology.