I'm From the Hinterlands
Spring break starts (for me) in about four hours. That's when I'll be done with my biology lab, in which I have to give a five-minute presentation. I chose methamphetamine as my topic, because it's a huge issue in the little podunk town I come from. I wonder if I should tell my classmates, as an aside, that there is a couple that lives in my hometown that got arrested for building a meth lab in their house. And that they lived five doors down from me. And that they are first cousins. And that they have a kid together.
I used to work for this crazy Hollywood couple and one time the husband got all stoned and started telling me that he and I were both from "the hinterlands" and that when you come from "the hinterlands" to "the city" you bring with you all the bullshit that they teach you in "the hinterlands." And that it was up to us (he and I) to rid ourselves of the stuff of "the hinterlands." All of which I found quite amusing. He seriously said "the hinterlands" at least six times. He's right in a lot of ways, I think... but I think everyone carries childhood baggage around with them and that it's not really geography and socioeconomics that can hold you back in life. It's your value system and your work ethic. Whatever. God knows one of that guy's kids could have used a trip to "the hinterlands" to learn something about how to treat people. (If you know me then you know whom I mean.)
"The hinterlands" have given us a lot of good things: Bill Clinton, dairy products, and funny stories about incestuous meth-lovin' toothless cousins.
I used to work for this crazy Hollywood couple and one time the husband got all stoned and started telling me that he and I were both from "the hinterlands" and that when you come from "the hinterlands" to "the city" you bring with you all the bullshit that they teach you in "the hinterlands." And that it was up to us (he and I) to rid ourselves of the stuff of "the hinterlands." All of which I found quite amusing. He seriously said "the hinterlands" at least six times. He's right in a lot of ways, I think... but I think everyone carries childhood baggage around with them and that it's not really geography and socioeconomics that can hold you back in life. It's your value system and your work ethic. Whatever. God knows one of that guy's kids could have used a trip to "the hinterlands" to learn something about how to treat people. (If you know me then you know whom I mean.)
"The hinterlands" have given us a lot of good things: Bill Clinton, dairy products, and funny stories about incestuous meth-lovin' toothless cousins.
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