Regret



This is not my secret--obviously; it happened, with both of them--but this is my big fear, not about boys, but about life. I already kind of regret the nerdy hour I've spent watching John Stewart and Colbert. I tend to get ridiculous about regret: which option will haunt me more? I'm going to start a point-and-shoot lifestyle. Regret doesn't exist, I will make a decision and forget about it, and time immemorial begins NOW.

Ahem. Goodnight, Bill O'Reilly.

What a botanical bench.

I'm in such a nerdy mood!!!
101 Things (End date: 29.Feb.08)

Lifestyle
13. Find a job I don't hate. I think I have!! I hope so!!!
18. Attend free, community activities. Meet the hippies who hang out there -->met Polish chick at RRSq last wkend who told me that her "only sense is emotion, so she can't describe things in terms of sight or smell." Whatever. I love RRSq and I love hippies, but I may have grown out of drum circles.


Professional
45. Learn Excel-->I need to learn this for Warrington, so *in progress*


General
70. Learn to be a (good) cook from recipes-->My polenta tonight was heavenly. I honestly can't believe how good it was. I'm officially a good cook.


Creative
87. Start collecting art, though on a small scale. -->great stuff from RailRoad Square last wkend!!






Alternatives:
2. Live in a place that I love-->I meant to leave this one for a PlACE that I love, like NY or CA, but I do in fact love Haile. I loved it first when I ran the trail, but even driving in the dark in the AM I still love it.

Quotes
"A ship is safe in the harbor, but that's not what ships are for"

"I did not feel that giving up would be a way to become free"
-Rosa Parks

"Sometimes you have to let go of who you are to become who you will be"
I think this is from SATC

"It is not enough to do your best--sometimes, you must do what is required"
-Winston Churchill

"Small minds think of people
mediocre minds think of things
Great minds think of ideas"

"We tend to judge ourselves by our ideals and others by their actions"

"Be the change that you'd like to see in the world"
-Gandhi

"It is impossible to try to please everybody and to be true to oneself"

"Age wrinkles the body; quitting wrinkles the soul"

"Ideals can only be evaluated as the sum of the actions manifested in their name"



Tomorrow morning I'm running PT! I have no idea what time it starts to get light out, and I'm definitely not running near naked-guy-territory on campus without my boys (I was definitely spoiled by my third week running 5am hill runs with a captain talking philosophy the whole time!), so Racquetclub might be it--

Here is what I'm working towards:
Capital City Marathon

It's right after S's bday and it'll be right before he deploys, so I have this fantasy about going out and visiting him and running it while I'm there. Plus, in this same fantasy, I don't just want to run one marathon--I want to be a marathon runner, to make it a lifestyle. I want it to be an excuse to travel, and a piece of home that I take with me, and remember every morning when I'm looking for my course. We shall see--and I will be as surprised as he is :)

jersey

oh oh oh
Benjamin Franklin

"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote."


I spent my camera money on textbooks yesterday, so no pictures yet of my new house.



And, just for the sake of my OCD list-making:

tomorrow: begin MSM program (master of science in management)

June: begin MAIB (International Business)-->spend November-August07 hopefully in Shanghai. Also June06 S gets deployed

Sept07:Law school! Probably somewhere crappy where I will kick ass and then go abroad again and then apply to transfer

June09:S finishes up, I'm almost finished with law, and PhD programs start in Sept.

I need to keep seeing this timeline or I get a little bit freaked out. Not that Gville isn't cool.

And here's some Amsterdam:



soon, soon I will post my own pictures of my own life.

Posted by Kit at 4:49 PM EST
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