Astronauts Day/Azalea Festival (North Carolina)
2008-04-09 @ 8:30 p.m.

Audrey keeps getting calls from some agency about job offers. Every single time, my mum takes the chance to nag me about finding a job. What the heck did I just do on Monday then? Just because I don't have to work everyday, she thinks I'm lazy. Why's it wrong to insist on flexibility when working part-time? It's not like I'm looking for a career. She goes on about how I'm lazy and don't know enough about life. Well, I do know that there's more to life than work. I'm not even 21, for crying out loud. Besides, I gave away two years of my life, and I feel entitled to spend 10 months bumming. The fact that I haven't been entirely unconstructive since my ORD doesn't seem to have registered. I can understand why some of my peers have thrown themselves into work, but that's not how I want to live my life. No, not even after I graduate. I want to be a teacher that has a life outside of school, not someone who's perpetually slaving away at a pile of homework to be corrected and returned. Call me idealistic, but isn't that the prerogative of youth, to dream of doing things better than those who've gone before us? I will never be Auden's unknown citizen, or Tessimond's man in the bowler hat. I do think my being either would please my parents though. That or being doctor. Or a lawyer. Yeah, that would be nice for them, wouldn't it?