Last time I checked...

...I didn't give a shit about what others think of me.

Here's my rant for this evening. It's been on my mind for a couple of days now...

1.) I don't favor being talked down-to. I'm not stupid, and I can tell when someone's giving me attitude, sarcasm, or talking to me with a general aura of superiority...especially if I've known them for years.

2.) If anyone thinks for one second that they are better than me for whatever reason (because I decided not to apply to grad school right away, because I temporarily moved to another country to try something new, because I'm not doing exactly what me and all my spoon-fed private-school friends were brought up to do, because I didn't go straight into the corporate world right out of college, because I don't really give a shit about how I, or my decisions, look to others, because I don't need to satisfy/show-off to/gratify others aside from myself and a few close to me, because I have a brain of my own, etc.), than they have another thing coming.

So the next time someone tries to put me in check about what I decide to do with my OWN life, I hope they realize that they are talking to someone who's had a job since she was 16 years old, graduated top 25 in her high-school class, took part in a billion extra-curricular activities, had 3 internships (one of them being in another country), as well as a job that required waking up at 4:45AM, working until 3, and going to class from 4-10PM, not only graduated college, but graduated college in 3 1/2 years with MAGNA CUM LAUDE honors and a B.A., and moved to an entirely different continent without knowing the language and got a job within the first month.

And to top it all off...I never got pregnant. So BOOYAH.

Now, some of you may be thinking that I wrote that last paragraph to toot my own horn. I am typically not as arrogant a bastard as this blog may imply, but you know what, I have a lot to fuckin' be proud of, and I am. I'm proud that I am not jumping on the bandwagon. I'm proud that I'm choosing my own course, wherever it takes me. I'm proud that I am not so incredibly close-minded that it impairs my own judgement of myself and of others.

So, if anyone still feels as though they have the right to judge me and my lifestyle, please reply via email with 1.) your name, 2.) your relation to me, and 3.) a list of accomplishments that makes you more worthy of judgment of me than I am. (Just a heed of advice, your list of accomplishments should imply that you are in some way better than/smarter than/have done more than me, etc.) Upon examination, if I find an email worthy enough, I will happily take into account the reasons I should live by your standards and/or care about what you think of me. Thanks.

Now, I have a class to teach tomorrow morning.
GOOD FUCKING NIGHT. =D