Free and Easy

If going to barbering school was free and easy, everybody would be doing it! On the positive side, I did receive a prompt e-mail response from my potential adviser. Evidently, Emily Griffith does not accept student loans. I'll resist a long diatribe and ask a rhetorical question: would you care where your money came from?
Another positive, is my M.A. is paying off. I don't have to take the assessment test to enroll in the program. Now I just need to come up with seven thousand dollars for tuition and books. Time to hustle and flow.
I can't help but think that if I come up with the money that I shouldn't put it into some kind of scam or play high stakes Texas hold 'em with it. But then I wouldn't have a new skill set, just dumb old money. I mean, when we all wake up in concentration camps next year, bankers, accountants, and stockbrokers will be side by side with carpenters and barbers, and then who do you think will be worth more?
I guess the next step I need to take since our whole social structure hasn't collapsed yet is to go talk to some bankers and accountants. Damn.
People talk a lot about life lessons and the meaning of life. We're here to learn humility. (Sure, it looks like some people aren't learning the lesson, but they're just better at hiding their humiliation). Maybe this isn't the meaning of life, but the only life lesson I've learned that is of any true, transcendental value is to be humble or be humbled, usually through humiliation. The point I'm getting at is this: anytime I've thought I deserved something, or have taken anything for granted, it's been stripped from me, torched, blown back in my face, and then I was sprayed with pee.
That paragraph was basically my fancy segue into this thought of how awesome my life would be if I sold my novel for a hundred thousand dollars. Then after spending a few years not making more than fifteen thousand, I've thought how awesome it would be if I even sold my novel for ten thousand. That would afford to give me a year off. Now, if I could just sell my novel for six thousand dollars, I could use that money to go learn a trade.
Be humble my friends.