just doing some Ninja-type thangs....

Hey ya'll. You still around? Good. How's life treating you? Fine, fine, yes. How's your Mama doing? mmhmm, I know, thats how they are......one day our kids going to say the same about us...

So now that the yada yada is out of the way, what's really going on? I know I've been Incognegro for a long time, but most of you know I have been on the grind. Yesterday was a strange day which caused me to write here today.


1. No less than 5 people asked me when the hell I was going to blog (My JOI!!!!)


2. Someone left me a comment on an old post (I see you DJ Fusion)


3. Got a message from Hottniks about a friend of ours

4. Felt my latest CD needed to be talked about


5. I miss blogging.


So I figure this post will be just as random as it needs to be. Hope you don't mind. (D)



On


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Well I have been grinding grinding grinding through school. I am not sure if any of you truly know my school story. Like to hear it? Hear it go. Long ago in a galaxy far far away known as teenage/thinkyourgrownism I graduated from high school a stubborn individual. I went to college, got preggers at 18, had my daughter at 19 and forgot about college. Okay. I didn't really forget about college. It haunted me almost on a daily basis. It's was like that monkey that I see over Whitney Houston's left shoulder every single time I look at her. It was really gangster for me because both of my parents are college educated, as are my brothers, and * hangs head * my Dad is a college professor. See, don't get it twisted. I didn't sit around sipping 2 liters of Pepsi on my couch eating Doritos all day, I went to work. I worked two jobs pretty much for about 14 years. There was a period of 2 years I worked 3 jobs. I have been in education for the last 10 years as a teaching assistant. I had to take care of Ninja Jr. Yeah all that work and I was still broke, but making it. I would take a class here. Or there. And while I applaud that (smallclaps,smallclaps) if that's what you are doing, step your game up player, because that is not the way you have to make a commitment to it. I had to learn that. Everyone pretty much knows I had life changing surgery and this is what lit the fire underneath my arse. My Daddy and my right hand, Jedi basically told me about myself. They talked school ALL THE TIME to me. ALL THE TIME. No for real. My Father even got at me during the week I stayed in the hospital. They were right. They got at me ABOUT ME, and also ABOUT MY DAUGHTER. I mean I have to lead by example don't I? If I don't I could lose her to BET, Videos, her friends, some boys raging libido, and basically I couldn't have that. So I took my paltry few credits, went on over to the school and sat down and made a plan. I quit my second job (ouch!-but worth it!) and went back to school full time, while working full time. My Dad helped pay, My Mom & Step Dad helped cart Ninja Jr back and forth to all of her activities. (A LOT!!-Ninja Jr was BUSY) Jedi helped me with my Bio homework and gave lots of encouraging words (um....also he yells but only when needed-and let's just say I needed a lot) This was 2006.

It is now 2008. On May 29, 2008 I will graduate with my Associates Degree in Liberal Arts**(meaning I took a bunch of Edu classes that weren't previously offered years ago for this degree.) I am VERY proud of myself, and I only hope and pray that the people mentioned above, especially my daughter, are proud of me also. I am 36 years old ya'll. It took me 14 years to get back in school! If you are there now, cherish it, embrace it, appreciate it, most of all FINISH IT!!


Oh please don't think I am done, not in the least. This is 1/4 of my goal reached. I start work towards finishing my BA May 27th, before I even graduate. LOL. I will be on the grind, as I am trying to finish in 1 1/2 years as opposed to 2. Trust I have a plan, well formulated. I am majoring in English, minoring in Communications/Journalism. After that graduation, to which you are all invited (bring gifts) it will be Master's (in English) time. I am going to leave Rochester and complete my Master's elsewhere, as Ninja Jr will be off to college when she grads in 2009. I haven't decided where yet, but that is pretty much the dilemma I am facing now. Where to go? I am trying to plan it now because basically 1 1/2 years is right round the corner (see it?) So if you have any ideas as to where I should go, sell it to me. I am open. I am tossing around the idea of teaching abroad, I have friends that do that and the opportunity will be there for me to do so, but I am open to any any ideas. If you think your city is the shit, and has a good school or two and some Black folks that are bout it bout it, let a sista know. PhD. Trust you will address me as Dr. Ninja. No. For real. You will. The career I am after is to teach higher education. Follow in my Pop's footsteps . And to write, but that is a given and you already knew that.

So yeah that is what Ninja has been up to.

Oh and Ninja Jr had a BALL in Italy and Greece over spring break. She was most grateful for the opportunity to go and she showed it to both myself and her grandparents. Check her out in that pic up there. Her life is a musical, all the world is definitely a stage for my star!

On a musical note:

The Roots "Rising Down" cd is FIRE. FIYAH!!!! You hear me? Basically if you don't have this cd yet, you need it. If you get this cd and you don't like it, to put it simply you must be an asshole. How can you not like REAL HIPHOP. This is some of what you get on this cd, The Roots, Mos Def, Talib, Femi Kuti, Chrisette, Common, PeediPeedi, Dice Raw, Styles P. Now see? You'd have to be an asshole not to know this cd WAS NEEDED. Hell I AM that bgirl crying cause the radio keep playing that same shit. I must say that TARIQ TROTTER aka BLACKTHOUGHT is the most UNDERRATED RAPPER AROUND. I know other rapper's don't underrate him, I know that Roots fans and their ilk, know the deal, but walk up to the average black kid and ask him who Blackthought is and watch the lil' mickeyfickey get mad cause he doesn't know. THIS CD IS NEEDED!

Listen I love you all! Thank you everyone for keeping up with me, and for supporting me and for plain and simple being my e-friends.

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**Yeah I didn't finish college. Blows your mind don't it, because I stay acting like a know it all don't I?No, what it is is, I know what I know. Bet that pisses one or some of you off. Don't get mad, my parents educated me well, I read books. Yeah books, real ones. I pay attention to life's lessons. I listen to every word you DON'T say. I educate myself. I pay attention. When I want to know about something I learn about it. And this was long before Google, cause Googlesmarts seem to be taking over the world. BOOOOOOOOOOO. Sorry ya'll but just cause you read it off of Wikipedia does not make it true. Hell any Internet crazy can wiki. ** kisses **