Just a post.

Hi GSS and our admirers. I have gotten on here and half-assedly attempted a post at least a dozen times. Today I'm actually gonna hit publish.
Since graduation, I've kind of been a lost soul. I went to New York with a few bucks and a whole lot of excitement, and it turned out to be a failure of sorts. Mostly, looking back on it, I was looking for jobs in all the wrong places (I thought I was invincible with my uni degree) and my lack of a job/career ultimately soured the entire experience for me. I moved home, where the air literally smells like pine, and was happy and safe. I learned more about life and about myself in my brief NYC stint than I did in, like, my whole four years of college. So that was cool. Plus, I got to meet some rad people and see some neat stuff, so it's all good. I don't hate NYC as much now as I did when I was there. Maybe my timing will be better someday.
Regardless, I joined my fellow recent graduates and moved back into my parent's homes. It was a pretty sweet deal because I worked for my dad, so I could stay with him and not have to commute, and spend weekends and days off at my mom's. This way, no one got tired of each other and most fights and frustrations were avoided. It was great while it lasted, but I hope I will never have to move back in. It is just so sweet to have a place of one's own!
I worked my butt off all winter, teaching an 8th grade writing class, playing assistant/personal chef/chauffeur/big sister to a VERY deserving family, keeping Dad's clinic running, falling in love, and slaying giant steelhead in my spare time. It was wonderfully chaotic and cool. Found out I love to teach, manila charts give nasty papercuts, and smoking 20lbs. of fish takes more than 3 days to complete.
By the time spring rolled around, I was ready to go. Not ready to go back to school and tired of my whirlwind (commitment issues?), I decided to travel. A friend told me he was going to au pair in Germany for the year. I got jealous, did some research, and landed myself a job with a family in France. Et voila!
I'm in Megeve, France, in the Rhones-Alps region, until May 2013 (a constant internal battle against my commitment phobia). I see Mt. Blanc everyday. I am lonely and mute, but it gets better every day. Lots of time to reflect and write and explore and eat. And, lucky you, you get to hear about it.

What has everyone else been up to all your lives????

happy christmas and merry new years or whatever

hello spiders and friends of spiders! guess what? it's 2012. like right now. they've made movies starring John Cusack about this shit.

this man is the reason most relationships in the 90's didn't work out.

so if the world is to end as planned then i have a plan of my own: have the most bitchin ass radical mind blowing time evers this year. and i don't care who gets mad about it. this year, i'm doing me and everyone else can jump on the ride with me or go to hell (quite possibly literally).... so level up spider kids, or get left behind (haha.... another apocalypse reference joke!)

christmas for me is just another day. the food is a bit better and i'm morally obligated to spend time with my family, but mostly i just want to get back to work. i was in the good old state of MT this year (as i have been every year previous, come to think of it) and so all those things afore-mentioned still held true. new year's was frackin awesome and i got to sing a duet song with one of my favorite local bands, of which all the members are really great friends of mine, Abelina Valley. check them out cuz they r00L. i'm back in chi-town now, and things once again are slowing down, which isn't a bad thing, considering the last three weeks i spent in montana consisted of me running around like a person who runs a lot trying to do everything i wanted to do, see everyone i wanted to see, and do at least two tattoos a day. i do really enjoy being that busy but it's nice to have a little break. let's hope for my bank account's sake that things here pick up in the next few weeks.

there is a great deal more that i could talk to you about as far as plans for the upcoming months and art shows and excitement such as that but i don't want to blow my whole load on one post you know? hope all is well with the rest of you and your holiday seasons were filled with wonderment and lots of booze :)

deuces.

-olive.