A Ridiculous List of Impractical Goals

• Be the front (wo)man of an internationally renown and award winning indie rock band
• Be a badass and coherent bartender
• Be a Travel Channel Host(ess)/Be on a reality television show
• Make a billion dollars.
• Learn 6 languages, well enough to hold a 7 way conversation.
• Stop making ridiculous goals, and start actually trying to achieve the ones I've already decided on.

I miss you.

I'm a little lost, ever since last Thursday when my Wallet, and the thousand dollar check from school went missing in the locker room.

I apologize for not posting lately, a commitment that doesn't nessecarily affect anyone outside of myself, but it was a commitment that I have been neglecting.

I've been thinking a lot about my ethnic background.

Something a classmate of mine said to me really hit me hard, and reenforced a ton of issues and angst I thought was dealt with and set down behind me in my past.

Wrong.
(My face was painted white as part of a makeup assessment, the girl who's art it was got an A!
This was her challenge;

This was her excecution;

Anyways, back to the other girl.)

She said, "Mina, you have very white features, not just your [makeup] I mean your features. I never would have guessed you were black if not for your hair!"

Mind you, this was completely out of left field, no warning or conversation leading up to it, and half my class agreed out loud. At first, I was hurt, and then I was angry, but then I realized that it's okay for some people to act that way. She just doesn't realize that our people are very very varied, and saying that someone doesn't look black, is kind of like saying that all black people look alike. My mother and I had this discussion last night and she told me something that will stick with me. She said, "We are the original people. Trace your family back far enough, and everybody's black. Egypt is in Africa, all of those biblical figures are black."

Think about that next time you want to say something stupid about my race.



On a lighter note, I don't know if you noticed but my braids are almost done! It's hard to do it yourself, so I'm really thankful I have friends in school to help me.



Love.
 - Mina

My sincerest apologies.

I apologize if anyone cares that I've fallen out of touch,
but I've been really busy these last two weeks while I've been working. 5 hours of work, after 9 hours of school? Not even mentioning the tine it takes to travel between them on the damn city bus! I am so exhausted by the time I get home, which sometimes isn't till 1am, which leaves me with... Say... 5, or so, hours of sleep before it's time to wake up for school again. Welcome to the working world, Mina!

A wasted day / A letter to myself

I wasted a lot of time today, but at least I think I finished writing the parody lyrics I've been working on.


"Like a boss" - Cosmetology edition.


I know it says I have no followers, but at least I have one fan! Mrs. Em =P


My life right now is centered around change. I'm so broke all I have left is change, so it's time to make a change! 




~




Dear Mina, 
  Be the hustler you were born to be, be an adult, quit messing around and get your head straight. It's now or never to learn to be responsible, so put your game face on and put your best foot forward. Don't ever give up, be the best Mina you can be. You are the only you, and you are beautiful and strong and there is nothing you can't be! There isn't a thing on this planet that can stop you now, because this is your life. Live it, love it, don't let it slip through your fingers to quickly, don't rush, remember to breath. Nothing can hold you back, no one can hold you down, there's nowhere you can't go, there's no sight you can't see, no hurdle you cant overcome, no mountain too high, and if there comes a time when you doubt yourself, and you lose hope, I hope you remember this: love is boundless, so when you feel as though you have no love left for yourself, all you have to do is make more. 

10% Luck
20% Skill
15% Concentrated power of will
5% Pleasure
50% Pain
=
100% reason to remember the name

New Chapter

I suppose it's time to stop playing around and get started on this new chapter in my life.
I used to be such an avid poet, but in the last year I've essentially given up on that craft and in exchange, I have put all my effort into school.
I learn so much, I love my school and all it's teachers and snobby witches, and all of the confusion that comes with the cosmetology school territory.
I'm paying about $2 a minute so I should learn as much as possible right?

I guess I'll use this blog as my memoir and diary, it's such a crazy life and I don't ever want to forget a moment.

~Today, on my break at school, the homeless woman with no voice (she heaves at us with a scratchy voice-like.. thing.. and asks the students for things like cigarettes and pieces of the food we're currently eating) decided to be brave and sit directly next to me. I promptly moved away whispering "HELP" to my roommate across from me.
~Later on our way home from school, we were practicing the little bit of ASL (American Sign Language) that we kind of know, with our headphones in and the music blasting. A beautiful young woman, who's name escapes me, asked us (in sign) if we were deaf, which was a little bit of a compliment considering my sign is terrible. In the middle of our conversation about ASL, the time she taught deaf children in Rwanda to sign, and hair, a very smelly old homeless man got on the bus and sat directly between us. Sad note: He smelled exactly like one of my old boyfriends! Anyway, her and her friend were just the most adorable things and I hope I see them again.

I'm going to attempt to make a new blog every (other) day, depending on my schedule.... I go to school Tuesday-Friday (9hours) & Saturday(6hours), and I work!

It's hard out here for a.. student?

Bucket List.

Today is the first day of the rest of my life, right? No more time wasting nonsense! It's time to grow up and live my life to the full extent of the law. 

Own a business. 

Release a record. 

Go to fashion week.

Travel across every continent.

Get married. 

Host a network television show.

Explore glassblowing.

Learn welding. 

Found a charity organization.

Buy a house.

Start a family.

Hunt live game.

Drive a ridiculously expensive car.

Eat a ridiculously expensive meal.

Go to a hollywood party.

Learn to bartend.

Go to a music festival.

Go to a film festival.

See a broadway musical.

Skydive.

Scuba dive.

Explore a cave.

Learn Spanish.

Celebrate Mardi Gras in New Orleans.

To be continued.