December 2008
5 posts
Sometimes, when there’s good news, a good gift, a fantastic change, I find it so hard to keep my mouth shut.
How much do you let a dream, a goal, and idea, an idealization, affect your future? How much to you make sure your expectations guide you before they carry you away? How realistic do you have to be to make sure you don’t get pulled under by reality, but how do you deal with making sure you don’t derail yourself trying to cope with a possible reality?
Holding the most substantial copy of my manuscript in my hands for the first time…
Great Expectations
Over the last six months, I’ve learned a lot about maturity. What I am, what I’m not, what I can and cannot control. I’ve learned from my successes, my mistakes, my presumptions, and the surprises that have been injected along the way. It’s been important in serious ways.
Putting my own maturity, my own age and expectations into perspective has caused me to...
Flying in the Face of Method
Okay, first: Successful Linux boot on an iPhone. I don’t know why I find this so hilarious and amazing, but I do.
I’m in the home stretch of my first of two final semesters. Never mind the fact that I have three art portfolios, two term papers, and one final due in the next two weeks and no time during which to do it, but all I want to do is write my book. In theory, this is quite...