I’m supposed to be working on my take-home test (second-last university thing ever) but currently am watching Gilmore Girls and brushing up my Bejeweled skills.

Much as I love school and much as I’ve always talked about grad school, suddenly, now that I’m almost done, it’s like pulling teeth to get me to do any work at all.

So, I’m kind of hatching a new plan: entrepreneurship.
I can completely picture myself running a funky little video store, with a great collection, quirky categories and a lending library of books on film and fiction. And maybe after a couple years I could add an espresso bar in the back.
I mean, I know DVDs could be on the way out, by the time I can actually afford a store there might not be money in it anymore, or everyone might be getting them mailed by Netflix or whatever, but I could sell something else.
Or have a coffee shop. I could still have the lending library.

I know, you’re thinking “Brenda, you have a film and English degree, what do you know about running a business?” But, despite my love of Virginia Woolf and Jim Jarmusch, and being half of a couple that has in-jokes about Foucault, I’m actually pretty good with the numbers and understanding the practical. My actual job that I get paid is mainly accounting-based. For a small business. Which means I get to see how everything works.
(I actually kind of come from a commerce family: my mom worked in a bank before I was born, my dad is CA, my aunt is a bank VP, my uncle is an economics prof, etc.)

The store dream would give my artsy side and my practical side would be serving a common goal.

Plus, I would get to be the boss.

The more I think about it, the more sense it makes.

But no, dad, I’m still not getting an MBA.