<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6770649</id><updated>2011-04-21T13:29:29.285-07:00</updated><title type='text'>In the Blog Beginnings....</title><subtitle type='html'>And Luke begins a web journal of his daily thoughts to attain a greater understanding of his new environment and changing personality. With his strange, impulsive, and surely awkward demeanor, what does this mean for him?</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://actualization.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6770649/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://actualization.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Luke</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07952954174021900960</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>1</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6770649.post-108186985299554365</id><published>2004-04-13T07:50:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2004-04-13T08:28:08.076-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>AHhh, I sit here April 13th, 2004 considering my new house, family, and budding career. Boring, but in serious need of pondering....   &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the last year or so, I've graduated college, gotten a job with Washington Mutual, snaggled a girlfriend, moved in with her AND her parents, and lost a lot of my hair (balding). All happening so fast, bloggin seemed like a great way to express the feelings I haven't had time to have. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Whoopity-Doo, A Degree&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When I finished my degree in August of 2003, I wasn't exactly unprepared, I was just ignorant. Ignorant of how ineffective a degree would be when entering the workforce as an unseasoned nobody. What a letdown it was to have no one but telemarketers and insurance salespeople even letting you in their door. No one ever mentioned that there will ALWAYS be a ground zero. Yes, I was under the illusion that my freshly completed Business Degree would send me sailing into the arms of a $50K/year dream job. Or, you know, maybe $40K. At least $30K, I said "Business degree," from UW? With 2 months at $0K/year, I desperately clung to a teller job at Washington Mutual, under the impression that perhaps the ideally-runged corporate ladder offered some serious (serious?) potential.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fast forward to April 2004, 5 months in progress, and you will Luke happily greeting and serving on the teller line, yearning to put a smile on people's face while wearing some sort of fucked-up sad clown face that could never fully reflect his depression. And why exactly this is, he doesn't know. However, a complete lack of emotional control and connection is suspected......&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6770649-108186985299554365?l=actualization.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6770649/posts/default/108186985299554365'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6770649/posts/default/108186985299554365'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://actualization.blogspot.com/2004_04_01_archive.html#108186985299554365' title=''/><author><name>Luke</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07952954174021900960</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry></feed>
