Going

I've been asked "So what are your plans for after college?" for the 72nd time as of today. 

I don't even know 72 people, yet alone I haven't spoken to more than 20 people within the past two weeks including the two customer service agents I called today. 

I need to give myself a title, coin a phrase, something obscure but not questionable. Something catchy. 

Something other than: I'm going to use my bilingual skill in some form in some type of business because I majored in Business and Spanish. 

And something other than the process of elimination. You can cross doctor, web designer, and serial killer* off your list of "acceptable professions." 

*serial killing is considered as an acceptable profession because its method is based on most company mottos, and it employs tact

I also don't need it to sound too new-age. 

I am Katie. My profession is. I am a. And I do. 

I conducted a social experiment on a few Argentines I met while speaking/"studying/"learning Spanish in Argentina. Inebitably, whenever I introduced myself as a student, I was always asked what I was studying. This baffled me for some reason, as it was quite clear to me that even though I could have been studying an actual profession to which others might study abroad, it would seem illogical that they wouldn't also simultaneously study Spanish. As it was, I was there purely for Spanish - to take random classes in Spanish, to live with a family, to do an internship with a local business, basically to survive - in the middle of the night on a weekend downtown finding a taxi, buying pears at the neighborhood fruit stand, giving speeches in Spanish without notecards in actual classes- on their language. 

I grew so weary of the "oh, of course you are here to learn Spanish" response that I began replying, "I'm a writer." The story unfolds right there, can't you see it! I'm already interesting. Others have succeeded off of this profession, and I am guaranteed that I will too. *As it is, I wouldn't be an "attempted murderer" because that reduces my success rate. 

What am I going to do after I graduate? 

What am I going to pre-label my success to be? 

Where am I going?

Well, I'm going. Isn't that more mysterious, more momentous, more monumentous!