The Great Plan
The year is 2006 and I have
started my senior year of high school. Senior year for me was pretty
great I finished all but one of my core classes and all the remained
was Economics. After that I got to spend my whole day as an intern
and then in my second semester I spent the whole day interning! It
was great.
I had the coolest job as an
intern doing what I loved. I essentially worked for my teacher in
video broadcast. We spent our days teaching students, shooting the
School news, going off campus to shoot movies and short films. We got
to work with some really nice people in the film and broadcast
industry. By eighteen years old I had a list of contacts and an easy
transition set-up for college.
Meanwhile, after school I
was nursing a new relationship and maintaining a job at Circuit City.
You know that place right; ancient structures sit in ruin all over
this great nation of the largest consumer electronic store for the
better half of three decades. Some times you will see the symbol of
this great empire hiding behind the words of a temporary Halloween
store- Okay okay I''l stop I guess it really isn't all I make it out
to be but really I did love that place.
I have of course worked in
the CAMERA! Department. I helped little old ladies find simple
cameras and budding filmmakers get their first camcorder, microphone
and tripod. It was a job I had a lot of fun working; it is also where
I first met a friend that I speak with to this day. We attempted
making a feature length film together and he also gave me some of the
worst advice and best advice ever. Though I am trying to avoid
tangents so I'll skip that for now.
Then every day for fun I
would go home and role play with my friends. The great golden age of internet role play and not that weird kinky stuff but the geeky
stuff. I was a great and power giant with the ability shrink and grow
on command. I had magical armor that scaled with me. It was awesome!
It was what I looked forward to every day. Creating this world with
my friends on the Yahoo User rooms! Anybody worth meeting hung out at
the Vampire Tavern. It was a small tavern with a bar, an inn, and a
lake by which of course a full moon always reflected on to. It was
here that I would meet my first serious girl friend.
This a girl that I met in
the heat of battle – now in hindsight the only heat was from the
friction of fingers on keyboard. (Really that “T3” style of
combat was intense you had to type, with out typo, your action before
your opponent. Typos were the typed equivalent of a rolling a 1 on a
d20.) If I remember correctly she was being chased by ninjas or
something stupid like that and I intervened all giant like and stuff.
Oh her name? Lets call this girl Mary-sue; Mary for short. After
talking for what seemed like forever I learned her name and that she
was from Wisconsin! A full 800 miles away from my home in small town
GA. We didn't let that stop us though. A few weeks later we were
dating and we formed a plan.
Now she was a year older
than me and already out of school but not started college. Our plan
was simple after a couple of months she would move to GA and get an
apartment. I would finish High School, start college, and move in
with her. Seriously for 17 and 18 year old plans we were geniuses;
How could this ever go wrong?
-Justin
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