Student Life Envy

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If you are one of the many without a job right now,

you may be wishing to go back to school somehow.

If not, you probably haven't heard about how modern

some of the schools' college courses have gotten.

I can't imagine preferring to revise resumes

over a student's study filled, quasi-lazy days.

Perhaps it's just because I majored in Sociology,

that these courses cause me student life envy.

At UCSB there's a Video Study of Social Interaction.

Bellmont University has one on Embracing Distraction.

Occidental offers the chance to study stupidity.

There's Psychology of Exceptional Human Experience at Coventry.

Heck.  I have a good job and wish I could go.

Daily work in an office isn't super exciting, you know?

Of course, I'd want someone else to pay the bill.

I'd just be there to lighten my mood without a pill.

If you are unemployed, why not invent your own course?

Perhaps search for modern remnants of the influence of the Norse?

At least you'll have something to discuss at your next interview.

You never know what that random knowledge will do for you.

© Rachel Hoyt 2011.  All rights reserved.

 

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Planet Bling

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A woman who felt she'd been had

looked down at her ring and was sad.

They'd found one bigger,

not with a digger.

Now planet bling is the most rad.

© Rachel Hoyt 2011.  All rights reserved.

This rhyme was written for Mad Kane's Limerick-Off.

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Investment Lotterization

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When I was little, my dad used to say,

that I needed to save for a rainy day

and not to expect to dig and find gold

to use to live on when I get old.

I think his heart would skip a beat or two

if I thought as 21% of the masses do

and felt the lottery was a viable wealth building strategy.

That'd surely make him want to smack some sense into me.

Even if you bought 31 years' worth of tickets in one week,

you'd have less than a 1% chance for which to speak!

It would cost you many thousands of dollars

and who could afford that besides big time ballers?

You would be better off raising geese, hoping to find

the one that lays eggs worth so much it'd blow your mind.

Or perhaps you'd prefer to search for sunken and buried treasure?

It would take more time but have better odds and feel like leisure?

Whatever you do, don't throw it all away

hoping that playing the lottery will pay.

Whether shoved in a jar, mattress or actual savings,

when not thrown to the wind, cash grows like it has wings.

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