As you probably know, I have been searching for grad schools lately--perusing university websites, taking the GRE, brooding over personal statements--and I have realized that I have no backup plan. If this grad school thing doesn't work out, I have no alternatives.
My biggest fear is that I will end up working in a fast food restaurant. I may be that guy that works the fryer at Wendy's or perhaps the mulleted man behind the register at Arby's. My talents at applying cheese to hamburgers may prove necessary when I work with Ronaldo, the heavy-set fellow who consistantly shuffles around the kitchen of McDonalds humming the theme song to The A Team.
The potential for this future seems to increase every time I think about graduate school. I've even heard that King Wienie, the hot dog stand near my house, may be hiring.
I will do anything to avoid this future.
So, in the spirit of avoiding working in a drive thru, this blog will cover my new life backup plan.
Whether I go to grad school or not, I want to have an exciting life. I would like to have a creative outlet in my work. Also, I would like to go to my high school reunion and feel like I'm too good to be there. Thus, I have begun a search for a backup plan that will help me accomplish these goals. I drove around town the other day, searching for inspiration.
I thought for a while before it finally came to me. I was driving by the Aggie Theatre and read the marquee: 10/6 Melvins, 10/7 Mamosa, 10/8 Cornbread, 10/9 Helmet.
All those band names have fairly decent qualities, I thought. Brevity. Obscure names. Food references. Helmet. However, a really great band would combine all the good things about these names. A band like that would be a force to be reckoned with. Perhaps the best band ever. Why has nobody made that band?
That is when it hit me. My backup plan. The course I would take to avoid the drive thru. It was so simple.
I'm starting a band. Melvin's Mamosa Cornbread Helmet. I think we'll probably play 1920's radio hour type music, with occasional interventions of noir style romances.
Just you wait, world. It's going to be big.
Backup plan officially established.
Love always,
-jim.
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