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Smiley signing on. It's February 28 in the two thousand and eighth year of our Lord. It's a leap year, so holler at me February 29th. We're here now, you're old news. I'd like to introduce myself of half of the collective of no suit, no tie. Joe Price, taking no Ferris Bueller's. Who am I, and why do I have time to write a blog? Cause I am 2 weeks away from unemployment. And still taking no days off. Walk with me...

We had a real strong LETSGETIT movement going on through the last year or so. You rocked with me, you rock with me. I rock with you. That's where we stand. Well I graduated. It took 4 years flat. I was having a good time with that college business though. You know, we had a good thing going. So I decided, this is my life. If I'm gonna be sitting at a 9 to 5...or in my case an 8 to 5...everyday, living life for nights and weekends, I might as well surround myself with all the people I know and love. No homo. So we got a job. We were supposed to do that through about November. That "go sit in an office everyday and do the same thing everyday" business aint all that. I appreciate it for what it is. Really. It pays the bills. I eat good, sleep good, play hard, have fun. But come down to it, without going into further detail...I can't do it anymore. So I won't be. "But Joe, if you're not going to be going to work, how are you taking no days off?" My homeboy Kevin once put it to me this way. "You think about success all wrong. You think of it like graduating and getting a job and sitting in a desk 5 days a week from 9 to 5. I think of it like I'm going to do what I want to do to make money. I'm just getting my degree as a backup plan." I respect that. I do. That's not what I'm doing...exactly. I don't really have everything figured out, but I'm well aware that God talks to you in his own way, so I feel like even though me and God haven't really had the most 2-way conversations that he still guides me in the right direction. I had an epiphany that I should just go for what I want out there in this world and not settle. So, in my case, I feel that route is higher education. I once told somebody, "I think the key to chasing your dreams is chasing them with the intention to catch them." Then I thought about it, and I believed it. So that's what we're gonna do. Worst case scenario...crash and burn. Best case scenario, be a very successful and happy man. Or fall somewhere in the middle. 2/1, I can deal with those odds. So in these next few months we're gonna be going hard on the higher education grind. Test preparation, personal statement, etc. and looking for a job too, in case that "offer you can't refuse" comes up. I've got a lot of free time. Mainly because all time is free. If I'm not doing something, then I'm doing something else. So blog with me.

"Until you're truly ready to say [screw] your fears, you are not alive."
-Cee Lo Green-