Linked In's: Career Explorer

The week has been dedicated to finding my career path. After having a conversation with a not-so-optimistic classmate, I realized that no one--in this day and age--is going to lend out jobs. Especially in the publishing Industry. So how can I boost myself to being a valuable worker? I have to study this business back and forth. Kind of like the way I study my hair.

You can call it an obsession but these days, I'm all about being healthy and productive. I may look obese, but my doctor likes my insides. And I do as well. There is only one month left before my semester ends and now that I'll be free in my latter semester of college, it is time I begin to look for a job. A real job.

Then it came to me! In an email of course. Linked In, a social network I'm not as "linked" into, told me to map out my career path. So I did, and I swear, it's it so0o helpful! More updates to come!

Which job is that? Well, an entry level Editorial Assistant of course!

Have an interest in publishing? Want to find a job in it?
Visit www.bookjobs.org

Need help differentiating? Check this link out!
http://www.ehow.com/about_6297079_job-description-associate-editor.html

Pretty Girl Rock!

I love this compilation of classics! Keri Hilson is really doing her thing!

A New Tactic to Suggest! RQR!!!

It has been a few weeks since Netchem and I committed ourselves to taking better care of our manes. However, I have run into a problem. I have been experiencing the early stages of carpel-tunnel, in my wrists and so my doctor suggests that I give them a rest. Though this entails all exclusion from typing, doing my hair, and overly exercising my wrists, I can only stop the latter two. 


So for now, I am on a timeout. Good News though! Starting December first, I am determined to get back on board. Not only will I continue my weekly co-washes and monthly deep conditioners, but I will start the regimen seen below. It is called the Real Queens Regimen and consists of 4 things: 
1) EVOO
2) The Green House Effect
3)Planned washes
4) Protective styles.


Want more info? Just press play! 
**Updates will be posted 

Two years to the Date

PHOTGRAPHY BY NETCHEM HAIRSTON

Two years to the date
I received a call that you left
There was no understanding in pursuit
No question that it wasn't theft


You didn't see it coming
And neither did our friends
You stayed strong for us though
and made us reseal our ends


Don't tell me you did no such thing
Just reminisce about the good times
That day on the beach I lost my glasses
But you stuck by me; an extra set of eyes


Sometimes we throw it away 
And say life sucks ass
Sometimes, we shed tears unknowingly
And wallow in our past


I know you prayed before you went to sleep
I know your time was due
But God knows why he took you from us
To see how easy a new day, without a good life can start anew. 


R.I.P SHANNON

On this Journey...

 I've never had to go through such a change. I've never had to put my honesty to the brink of extinction. Colors collapse around me all the time and all I can do is drop hints on how many times I won't catch them. My friend and I have this trust going on. A trust that involves cuticles, and shafts. A trust that delves into the world of pH and courage. Netchem is my friend. Our hair is our trust. Our fund. Our bond. Nothing breaks us up when it comes to our bond. Individually and collectively, there is no such thing as letting go of what we were blessed with.

I've never had to go through such a change. But Netchem did and she posted it a while back on http://afropuffs.tumblr.com/. That journey to natural flowing wisdom! And my coming out of ignorance. The ignorance that involves parabens and Lauryl Sulfates. I am on this journey with Netchem for two reasons. (1) We want to push our hair to the limit. Retaining length is no easy feat. It's comes with slow nights of gentle unraveling. It comes with organic products our hair originally want to reject. Did you here that? Our hair wants to reject what is GOOD for our hair because it is addicted to the bad. I attended my Advanced Grammar course today and the professor stated what I know is true. When my children are born, their vocabulary will be made up of "pretend irregular verbs/sentences" like He snook into the movie theatre.

And miraculously, she is correct. My computer didn't underline the "pretend" verb, snook. It underlined my British-spelled theatre. Anyway! All I am trying to say is, Netch and I have decided to take the reins (if that's how you spell it) on correcting the mistakes our parents made with our hair. (2) We want to learn from our mistakes, miracles, and makeshifts! There's only one way to find the true remedy and that's through trial and error!!

Want to take the journey with us! Ask questions at any time by simply leaving a comment!! I'm red, and Netch is blue... but idk. In this world there is no choice to pick from except the correct one!

HAPPY MOMMY'S DAY!!

I don't know why but this awful Haiku was going though my head... So I had to post it!

Mommy dearest Loved

But she can beat like a thug

Happy Mother's Day! 

Our Greatest Fear by Marianne Williamson

Sometimes we let our insecurities ruin the good things following us in life! 

I don't need that!

Read this poem the other day after watching:

AKEELAH and the BEE

It was P-H-E-N-O-M-E-N-A-L

"Phenomenal"

Our Greatest Fear —Marianne Williamson

it is our light not our darkness that most frightens us

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light not our darkness that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous,
talented and fabulous?

Actually, who are you not to be?
You are a child of God.
Your playing small does not serve the world.
There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other
people won't feel insecure around you.

We were born to make manifest the glory of
God that is within us.

It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone.
And as we let our own light shine,
we unconsciously give other people
permission to do the same.

As we are liberated from our own fear,
Our presence automatically liberates others.

—Marianne Williamson


LET IT MARINATE!