A new beginning

I'm a dancer, poet, model...and I have chemistry and psychology degrees. Dance rules my life, and when I have to sit behind a desk I resent the screen in front of me and my boss leaning over my shoulder asking how things are going every 15 minutes because we share the same office. I'm new to the city and struggling to find a way to enjoy the nature around me without running to and from the el because I'm always between jobs. Hold up... let me slow down.

Hi. My name is Erin and I'm currently a dancer with two companies in the area, I model, I work a temp job, and I work PRN for a mental health company that may close in the next 2 months.

Today was a temp job day. I woke up too late to do yoga this morning after sleeping 4.5 hours because I didn't want to leave my boyfriend's place last night after we played Hero Quest. I went to work and organized about 13 boxes of magazines that will probably never be read again, tagged online documents with a phrase that I find useless, and researched books that will simply make an internal memo look pretty. On my walk home I saw a girl about my age walking with a friend and a dog, and I thought to myself: why can't I afford to have a dog? I want a pet, I want to have time to enjoy the evenings - or at least to be able to choose how to spend my evenings rather than filling them with chores or phone calls that I'm overdue on.

So here I am, creating my first blog in the attempt to change my life course. Here goes...