I love seeing my breath in the hallways

http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/258584/december-16-2009/tom-brokaw

Stephen, you are such an awesome person. And Tom, I love your real-ness and your wisdom.

I am 27 years-old now. What a time to go through your 20s, huh? To think, it was when I was 19 and living in Illinois that I fell in love with the Beatles, and now look at me. I always get so mad at conservatives who constantly bring up 9/11 in every single speech ever.

Mr. Brokaw brings up the Rome comparison, which I have thought of a few times. This band that I'm really into, Botch, has an album called "We Are the Romans."

That album was released in the late '90s. And then there's this:

Wait, is that seriously a FEMA manual from August 1997?? Yeah I am kind of into conspiracies.

Ok back to Rome. I honestly thought that I could easily get a job once I had my master's degree. I remember saying once a long time ago, when I was talking to someone about living in Asia, (because I have been in love with this continent for a few years now), "Geez I really hope that I don't have to move to Asia and teach English, that would be a little embarrassing..." That was my attitude, that was the attitude that was all that I knew before. But now it has been many years, and I am a little wiser. Teaching and living in Korea is one of the most lucrative and smartest things for me to do right now. Wait, what is wrong with this picture? I have an effing master's degree. Why aren't people in my home country scrambling for me? The USA in the 50s 60s 70s 80s and 90s was unstoppable, that's why. Now, we young Americans are doing it in the same way that American corporations have been doing it for a long time now. We have to go OVERSEAS to make money. Meanwhile, Americans are growing stupider and fatter every day. With the exception of a few progressive people and California and New York.

I grew up in a time when I thought I could do anything, and there was very little pressure on me. I think that that's why I was almost cheerful about going into the amount of debt that I am in right now.