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Quit Making Noise And Lend An Ear To The Silent Voice 06.15.08

It’s been a good month. I received some very happy news on the career-side of things not too long ago; it actually kind of renders some of my time capsule answers a bit moot, but that’s unimportant. The overall effect (read: fun benefits!) I cannot complain about. Broadcast accounting, here I come, whee!

It’s been a good week. VBS this year, like any year, seems to start off slow at the beginning of the week, but (not) soon enough, it’s the end and finally the last day of VBS. It’s always fun, and I always love doing it, but this year, I’ve found myself pretty tired at the end of most days. I’d like to think of it being the result of a hot, sort of stuffy room with a crazy hot projector and laptop running and interacting with over sixty kids in a three hour time span, but really, it’s probably just me getting older. Though, I’m sure spending almost seven hours there four out of five nights don’t exactly help.

It’s been a very very good day. Awesome friends, awesome food and a very very awesome penguin cake make for a very memorable night, even if in the end, we did have to wait over two hours to be seated at the restaurant. (My fault, totally my fault.) I can only hope twenty-five will be as wonderful.

To conclude, summer pop culture fun in the form of a YES/NO list (because I love them and love using bullets, whatever).

  • Seeing Eisley (again) at the House of Blues: “Grungy, edgy”, amazing YES.
  • Seeing your bestest friend graduate from college: Hundred YES’S.
  • Random mailings from UTD including one particular publication titled Beyond Innovation: Entrepreneurship at UT Dallas but excluding one particular still-awaited letter: NO.
  • The Myriad’s With Arrows, With Poise: YES.
  • Scarlett Johansson’s Anywhere I Lay My Head: NONONO.
  • Iron Man: YES.
  • Prince Caspian: NO/YES (More NO than YES).
  • LOST’s season finale: YES/NO (Lots of YES’s, very few NO’s).
  • American Gladiator’s Crush: YES.
  • Mint Mocha Frappuccinos from Starbucks: Very Tasty YES.
  • Green and blue toenails: Green/white and pink/white polka dotted YES
  • Penguin Cake: Double layered YES

I tried to be chill, but Dear Friends, you’re all so hot that I melted.
That is all. ;D

Orange Is Young, Full Of Daring 05.06.08

Things that may/may not necessitate elaboration:

  • I sleep too much some days
  • I don’t sleep enough other days
  • I’ve been watching more playoff hockey than playoff basketball this post season
  • My right knee has been sore for the past two weeks
  • I saw a package of chicken and abalone flavored ramen on top of the microwave at work last Friday
  • I have been debating the pros and cons of possibly taking up knitting
  • I really like using Google Calendar

Playing And Singing About The Dream I Tasted 04.14.08

I heard about Dr. Randy Pausch sometime last fall, from Digg of all places. At the time, I hadn’t paid too much attention to the story (a 47-year-old Carnegie Mellon professor dying from pancreatic cancer gives an inspirational message in a lecture at the university); since then, however, his lecture, which addresses how to really achieve your childhood dreams, has picked up considerable steam especially in the media in the last few weeks. I finally had a chance to watch it tonight, and I’m apt to agree with all that’s been said about it.

Although it clocks in just under eighty minutes, I highly recommend watching it if you haven’t yet; Carnegie Mellon has a website set up here with links that provide the video on YouTube, (free!) audio and video versions from iTunes and even a transcript of his lecture.

It’s funny, moving and all the while, filled with extremely good advice on not only how to achieve your dreams (”Brick walls are there for a reason: they let us prove how badly we want things”) but more importantly, how to live your life.

And if the ending doesn’t move you, even in the slightest, well, you’re just an unfeeling jerk.

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