Resolutions

Snow- the cocaine of the South... it's white, it's powdery (sometimes rock-like), and totally makes towns like Florence descend into an incapable, desperate, passed-out mess.

After watching an outrageous amount of television today (on the treadmill. Hello resolutions!) I realized that college students get REALLY long breaks between semesters. This break has been pretty productive for me, but overall I've done even more nothing. Now, though, there is less than a week before school starts and I have realized that I have so much left to do... including finding a new course. I have a sick feeling in my gut that I'm going to end up taking another 8 AM class with an attendance-nut for a class that I evaded for who-knows-why but I knew I needed to take...

Apparently, I'm a glutton for punishment.

2010

the beginning of a new year... a new decade... an important decade... at the end of this decade I will be thirty, so I really believe that the next ten years will really establish who I am and how I will impact the world.

My mantra in life (thus far) has been to embrace the fluidity of life, to be humble and open to change, but I'm realizing that simply going with the flow offers no real contribution to anyone... so I'm going to try to redirect my mantra.

For now, I will focus on spreading what I find beautiful. A regional artist, Paul Cordes Wilm, is one of my favorite artists of all time. His paintings and multimedia art has a nonchalant sense of humor while maintaining the charm of pop art and the significance of folk art (@http://www.forkitude.com/).

FINALly

Even though my family does not celebrate the holidays, I am feeling the stress that is cliche this time of year. As cold Saturdays are good for, I slept in and ravaged my Hulu account. Dollhouse, Joss Whedon's current death-bed project that I fell in love with (not just because of Eliza Dushku) last season, is ending beautifully. Complex, inexplicable twists, technology that may never exist, et cetera, et cetera is exactly where I was hoping this show was going but didn't know it. Hopefully this Firefly 2.0 will get it's Serenity someday soon.

In personal matters, old friends are tricky levitations... it's interesting to see how people can be surprising. My old friends find a way to be soul-shakingly surprising and absolutely predictable simultaneously within the timeframe of our brief encounters. Most surprising, though, is that the old shoes I used to fill still fit.

Thank(ful)sgiving

It's crunch time on the scholastic front. Crunch time is that time when all of the last papers/projects/etc is due before it's time to study for final exams. Stress reaches extreme levels for everyone, but in different ways. Some have the classic sleep stress, pushing themselves to the limit with caffeine and junk food to cram as much productivity into a twenty-four hour day as possible. Others react by procrastinating and producing shoddy work at best. The last group that I have any experience with are those who react with emotional stress, which turns university students into kindergartners.

I am, however, on the ball currently. I have way too many mentors, too few decisions to make, and sufficient time to get everything done.... just in time for Thank(ful)sgiving break.