12 Year Old Me is Gonna Be Pissed

Lately I've been thinking a lot about what I am doing with my life and where I thought I would be at this time. Maybe it's my lack of any present artistic endeavors, maybe it's because I've been watching too many episodes of How I Met Your Mother and Californication, or it could just be my allergies but sometimes I think the 12 year old me would be a bit displeased with himself. I'm not yet the scientist, police officer, lawyer or actor that I wanted to be when I grew up. But then again 12 year old me also still believed in Santa Claus. It seems that from a young age I was ear raped by the school system into thinking that continuing my education would reap nothing but monetary rewards. "Only the uneducated get stuck with the jobs no one wants to do." As I have gotten older I've noticed that is not always the case. Sometimes I'm glad that I didn't go down that path of higher education so that I would live out my days in retail paying back student loans I still couldn't afford while dusting off a degree that's not worth the paper it's printed on. Other times I think about what would be different about me if I did further my education by attending College. Would I have settled on a degree that would be useful and is actually hiring right now? Would I be dating some sexy co-ed I once met at a keg party? Would I be some kind of a douche? And how would this affect my interest rate? You know what I think it may just be the allergies.

How I Met How I Met Your Mother

My first experience with How I Met Your Mother (from now on HIMYM) came about by a Myspace post from my friend Andrea about 3 years ago. Other than gushing about Jason Segel she showed a clip about how the character Robin was once a pop singer in Canada. That scene alone should have been enough to make me take notice. Indeed I did but alas I always feel as if I have to start a show from the beginning in order to enjoy it so I let it go for the time being. Days, weeks, and months go by and I get Bobb X and my roommate Chelley try to convince me that I would enjoy the heck out of this show. I still do not watch for whatever reason. Finally in 2009 I willingly let my friend Kelly force me into watching the show. From one episode I wanted more. If you don't know, the show is about the future version of the main character Ted recounting the days when he was living in NYC and hanging out with all of his best friends and how he eventually will meet his wife. I found all of the episodes through different online means that I won't go through in this blog. I was able to start from the beginning about a month ago and I am now halfway through season 4 and loving it. It's refreshing that there is a sitcom filmed before a live studio audience that I can watch without cringing. So here's to Ted and the gang and here's hoping Neil Patrick Harris gets the Emmy he so deserves for season 4.