Aleska Herman:
CLASS OF 1986
South Vermillion High SchoolClass of 1986
Clinton, IN
Aleska's Story
I always wanted to be a "normal", stable, self confident human being when I grew up (ambitions sometimes get you nowhere). My family thought all their bulls**t shouldn¿t count (thanks for making sure I would need a Psychiatrist) and friends thought that given enough time and medication that it was a plausible idea. As it turns out, they were all totally wrong. My life hasn¿t ever been "normal", working on stable every day, and I don¿t think I ever grew up so the self confidence thing may still happen...
I¿m under a lot of stress so when I blow off steam it usually takes lots of hot flames and molten glass, or several noisy power tools, surprising how the threat of bodily harm makes me zone out and focus... If I was going to work somewhere besides my shop, I would need to have amnesia to counteract the Agoraphobia I have, lots of medication to help with all the PTSD, OCD, P&AD, all the other initials in my medical chart and Agoraphobia that I deal with daily... (thanks family and a few strangers to boot) and a gun to be able to deal with bull in day-to-day life basically cause I don't like people.
If I could improve my home, I'd remodel the entire thing,(working on it) and add on a bigger workshop and garage. My dream home would be one that came with a housekeeper cause day to day stuff escapes me...
I have learned that I am old though not necessarily to grown up ... that I finally turned semi into my mother after the kids but I am still crazy (like kids don¿t make regular folks that way) but I cant blame it on them cause I have always been this way...
If I won $100 million, I'd use a big chunk of it to improve life in AMERICA (imagine that)cause I have always wondered, in other countries, do they put specials on their TV about OUR homeless, the starving, and needy we have right here, then spend the rest on life, love and pursuit of happiness, oh wait I am alive (continuing accomplishment) and I love my husband and kids...(well ok ...most of the time),(continuing to strive for the accomplishment)...Expand for more
and moderately happy with life in general, if I take my meds (still working on it)....When I was 12, I thought that people my age now (42) would be already be dead and buried. I was so completely uninformed about life not being as simple as "Logan's Run"
My best friend Darla would tell you I'm a riot most of the time sort of like watching the insane play pinball wizard in a rubber room, them being the ball, with a low tolerance for peoples continuing intentional stupidity but people who don't know me very well would probably describe me as quiet and reserved or just having a wicked temper in a few bad/wrong circumstances...
I have never been a fashion diva (shutter) I don¿t change much I just wait for the cycles of fashion to revolve around me and hope that at some point that there will be a pair of shoes that I like....
I share my home with two sun conure parrots (sqwaky b*st*rds) and three feline familiars from the night time world, which I find to be quite grounding, nothing like animals to bring you down a peg.... Ignore us we will scream or scratch... play with us, we become dependent and cuddly... but behave cause we can always retrain another human.....
So what does the future hold, in 10 years, I hope to be alive and still be able to write and draw with a pencil, turn on the torch and make beautiful glass beads and pieces, pound on some leather and make something nice, something, anything. I'm going to get there by waking up one day at a time.
My first job was at the Italian Restaurant on Crompton Hill , where I got paid peanuts to take crap and wash dishes. What I remember most about it was their cook, Mary Cherry, yes that was her real name and the hard lesson that "I am your employer, I don't have to like you, you don¿t have to like me, just do your job and never forget I am not your friend". My funniest job was as bartender in several different bars in a couple different states(yes me the churchy quiet girl lol) I liked being the beer goddess and messing with peoples inebriated minds....
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