Blog!

I guess the wonton mistress of procrastination got the better of me again. Why write mindless blogs when I can read not-so-mindless books? But I decided to take the time and make a list.

Things I have learned in the past few weeks:

1. If your advisor giggles when you tell him your eight-month plan, you just may be taking on too much. Especially when, after your protests, the giggles turn into a stare of disbelief, or perhaps it was confusion.
2. Stress can only last so long. You learn to work faster, or you just don’t get it done. The stress amplifies until you realize that you just don’t care quite as much as you used to. Alternately, you may start muttering to yourself in the hallways. This is also fun.
3. People exist. Some of them are interesting. (Okay, I already knew this one, I just never paid attention.)
4. Drinking does not necessarily enhance mental processing-speed, or make you cleverer. Do not email professors, authors, or potential lovers whilst drinking - no matter how right/wrong/beautiful/etc. they may be.
5. Sometimes people do strange things. This is normal, and can generally be ignored. The trick is to recognize when you’re the one doing strange things.
6. Procrastination happens. Do not try to prevent yourself from procrastinating by denying yourself access to essential reading pleasures – you will only find yourself reading strange feminist manifestos on the internet instead. Life is short. Procrastinate large.
7. If you exclude porn, the internet is really quite small. And boring.
8. If you ask the knowledgeable Hollywood Video staff for a movie in a particular language, check the back of the box and make sure that it really is in that language. Or at least one you can understand. Because some people really don’t know the difference between German and Dutch.
9. Rain can seem like it lasts forever. And ever. But then there are flowers, and blooming trees, and sometimes even a little sun. And it’s beautiful.
10. But my most important lesson: you really never know what’s going to happen, or how you’re going to feel in a day, a week, or a month. Don’t frantically prevent all construction of a bridge before you realize that that bridge would have been a really, really nice thing to have.