The Now

Hello friends. My name is Leila. Welcome to my blog. I decided to finally start this blog after one-too-many existential crises. Basically, like most people my age (and socio-economic status), I've stopped pursuing my creative endeavours because my stable office job has sucked all the life out of me. I work for a property management company in downtown Washington, DC. I'm the administrative assistant to the Regional Vice President ("assistant regional manager"... "assistant to the regional manager"... yup, puns from "The Office" are sadly my current reality). 

It's not all gloom and doom. I'm paying my bills, I've paid off my credit cards, and I only have $20,000 left of my student loan. That's why I have this office job. To pay off that student loan. And for other boring things like health insurance and a retirement package. Ugh, why do I get so sad just typing that?!

It didn't always used to be like this. I used to do fun, creative, and imaginative things... mostly in my 20's... before the student loan. When I graduated from DePauw University with my B.A. in History and Anthropology, I decided that I was going to be a radio DJ. And I did just that! I moved to Austin, Texas, made cassette air-check tapes of my college radio shows, and hand-delivered those cassettes to the five radio stations I wanted to work for in Austin. And a month later, I got a job as a part-time DJ at KKMJ, Majic 95.5 FM. I would DJ at 6:00 AM on Saturday mornings, and I even got to fill-on the morning show when the female DJ was sick or away. Oh, I LOVED it!

I'm not going to bore you with my whole life story today. We've got years to get to know each other. I just thought I would introduce myself. Again, my name is Leila. I work in property management. But I used to do fun things. And I plan to do fun things again (the book I want to publish, the musical I want to write and star in, the sit-com I want to write and star in, etc., etc., etc.). But that will come in due time. For now, I write. I say hello.

But I don't want you to think that this is the blog of a sad girl. Oh, no, no, no. I live in my favorite neighborhood in the world! Columbia Heights, in Washington, DC. I live with a bomb-digity roommate and my boyfriend, who is the sweetest guy in the world. I basically live within blocks of all of my DC friends. I'm exactly where I want to be. I'm just dealing with a typical American office job, that not only gives me no inspiration or satisfaction, but actually makes me cry more times than I care to admit in this blog.

Here's a photo of me from 2012. It was taken in a London pub, after an evening of sweaty karaoke with old officemates (but I'll share more London tales another time).

That's it for tonight. Thanks for reading. Sweets dreams, one and all. Then back to the grind to do it all again tomorrow.

Night-night,
Leila