Home is Where You're Happy

I already posted a first blog, but after close examination, it was totally dull. I can't start this thing with a boring blog! What kind of message does that send? "Uh, yeah, here's one more small town girl trying to make it in the big city." Wow, great, wonderful. There are how many of those? No, no, no. I'm not just any other girl living on her own for the first time. I'm Bridey, God dammit, and that's something! So, I'm writing another one.

Ya see, I was born up by Chicago, but my family moved to Walnut when I was little, so I spent my formative years in the middle of nowhere. Oddly enough, as I've grown up, I've really come to love it out here (I say here because I'm home visiting.) It's weird how things come full circle like that.

Anyway, I live in Chicago now, because I'm going back to DePaul University, where I went for a year right after high school, to finish my degree in Political Science. By cramming in as many classes as I can, I'll be done next Spring, so I pretty much have one year left of college. Pretty nuts, considering the fact that until recently, graduating seemed so far off I almost didn't think it would happen. Now I just have to figure out what to do with my post-collegiate life, which is far more daunting than anything I've dealt with in the past.

As far as who I am goes, well, that's hard to sum up. I guess among the most important things to know is that I'm pretty obsessed with the 1960's. NO! I am not a hippie loving creep with peace signs and flowers everywhere. That's not the '60's I mean. I adore mainstream white culture from the early '60s. Think Mad Men. Yeah, exactly like that. In my imagination, it will always be 1962, when the Kennedy's were still in power and men still dressed well. Good music, good movies. Oh! Wonderful.

Other important facts, I guess, would be that I have a dog named Draper -- he's my life -- and that I'm a Socialist. I have six tattoos (planning on more) and one piercing.I love to read and recently started writing again. Most of the time I just spend daydreaming, which directly leads to me being disappointed a lot. But I'm a happy person by nature, and I spend a lot of time laughing. Just don't compare me to the rest of my age group. You'll see quick enough that I'm not your typical 20 year old.