9:00 a.m. wake up/get ready/get ready/breakfast/etc.
10:30 a.m. start laundry/clean room/etc.
12:00 a.m. lunch with roommate
1:30 p.m. exchange books at library
2:30 p.m. pick up treats at local bakery
3:00 p.m. bike around Provo and end at park to read new books
4:30 p.m. buy groceries
5:00 p.m. make needlessly complex dinner for myself
6:30 p.m. eat needlessly complex dinner
7:00 p.m. go back to library to pick up old movie for movie night
7:30 p.m. get a big gulp at 7-11
8:00 p.m. watch old movie
etc. etc. etc.
now I know that sounds like a nice average day but I actually made this list before I did them so that when I got them done I would feel efficient, that same feeling I used to get from doing homework...I love to check things off lists. Not that I haven't been doing worthwhile things. I read a lot of excellent books, right now I am reading Salman Rushdie's new book The Enchantress of Florence, and I work on my French everyday so that when I am back in school it will be perfect. But even these books aren't enough and when I registered I realized that these laid back days of trying to find fulfillment in silly things are drawing to a close which is both exciting and scary. This winter I am pursuing new and more challenging classes, truly committing to a major and career path. I am putting school first and nothing before it and I have to say it freaks me out. I have spent so much time trying to figure out my major and my classes and what I want to do, that now that I have one in my sights I am a little nervous to abandon my comfortable, fake-fulfillment, working at Macy's life. I know it will be better and I'll be happier but it feels like the end of something an era of some kind...anyways this is a true what is up with me blog post than a list of movies, books, and music I've liked lately...
6 comments:
shoot I thought this was a post about your new love of racing souped up sports cars down Tokyo parking ramps.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0463985/
Excellent post, Jack, and I'm glad you aren't taking the old Toyota drifting down a Tokyo parking garage.
what i love/don't love about my family: we have the same sense of humor, so everyone beats me to the Tokyo Drift punchline. Personally, I think I deserved to make it first because I actually watched that WHOLE movie one afternoon...it was my dark "newborn, tired, nursing boredo" period...
oh, and the real "big sister" comment is...I'm glad you are ready to stop drifting. It gets old after awhile, and you start missing out on more fulfilling (if harder) things in life.
hope we can see a bit of you during Thanksgiving break...we'll be there that whole week. Alex and I even want to brave "Black Friday" if Dad's up for babysitting. :)
Jack is back! And I am so glad. It's corny, but you are going to do some great things.
hey jack. how exciting. i'd be scared to say goodbye to all those wonderful, heartwarming things to, but think about this: we can both come home to a nice cup of tea after school together and speak to each other in frenalian (french-italian). it will be nice.
where have you been?
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