april flowers
howdy
it's a super (and i mean SUPER) gorgeous sunday in san jose. the birds are chirping in their not-yet-annoying voices, the sun is out but not too strong, and there's a breeze to keep things at just the right temperature. 10:30am, and i've been awake for an hour and a half.
i need to go running (to get rid of excess flab that's accumulated over winter months), and i need to clean up my car -- inside, out, and that dead headlight, then i'll probably whisk up to sf to bask in the city sun up there, albeit a little cooler.
i'm also still not done with taxes (yes, it's april 13th, i KNOW), but that's a whole other story to deal with later.
work's been a little crazy, a little fun, a lot of work. but as summertime actually approaches, i really am a bit excited to see how this whole tech camps thing goes. how well do i act as director? i feel like i'm still a little stupid, a little silly, a little too young to "direct" anything. i'd rather be traversing the globe or tinkering with shit. i guess i get to do that with this job, just in a different sort of environment.... okay, that was an extended analogy. i don't get to traverse the globe at all unless you count "traversing" as running frantically around the museum floor. ha.
but things are going well. i'm going to take a much-needed vacation soon. and come september, when everything's clean and done, maybe i'll trek off to boston or dc or new orleans (or even chattanooga) or somewhere for a few weeks of rest. then start all over again.
stay hungry, stay foolish. who's the important/famous dude who said that? it's a good line.
i was exhibiting at a teach for america conference yesterday afternoon at stanford (where i got some horrendous tan lines from standing in the sun for too long), and i was just a tiny bit inspired by smart people trying to help the world. i guess it's always nice to see that, indeed, despite huge conglomerations or obnoxious companies, there are people and places who do the right thing. well.. depending on your definition of right. but really, how can you ever blame tfa?
anyway, i feel like i'm calming. i don't know if that's the right word, but it's a "okay, this is all alright" type of brainwave that allows me to move smoothly along with life at a decent pace. call it happy? nah, not so much. happy just seems euphoric or something. it's too much to aspire to. and there are always things that easily allow you to be unhappy. but that "unhappy" term also seems too drastic or opposite.
anyway, enough babbling. i'm doing alright. good.
off to play in the sun!! and grow my little seedlings!
:O)
it's a super (and i mean SUPER) gorgeous sunday in san jose. the birds are chirping in their not-yet-annoying voices, the sun is out but not too strong, and there's a breeze to keep things at just the right temperature. 10:30am, and i've been awake for an hour and a half.
i need to go running (to get rid of excess flab that's accumulated over winter months), and i need to clean up my car -- inside, out, and that dead headlight, then i'll probably whisk up to sf to bask in the city sun up there, albeit a little cooler.
i'm also still not done with taxes (yes, it's april 13th, i KNOW), but that's a whole other story to deal with later.
work's been a little crazy, a little fun, a lot of work. but as summertime actually approaches, i really am a bit excited to see how this whole tech camps thing goes. how well do i act as director? i feel like i'm still a little stupid, a little silly, a little too young to "direct" anything. i'd rather be traversing the globe or tinkering with shit. i guess i get to do that with this job, just in a different sort of environment.... okay, that was an extended analogy. i don't get to traverse the globe at all unless you count "traversing" as running frantically around the museum floor. ha.
but things are going well. i'm going to take a much-needed vacation soon. and come september, when everything's clean and done, maybe i'll trek off to boston or dc or new orleans (or even chattanooga) or somewhere for a few weeks of rest. then start all over again.
stay hungry, stay foolish. who's the important/famous dude who said that? it's a good line.
i was exhibiting at a teach for america conference yesterday afternoon at stanford (where i got some horrendous tan lines from standing in the sun for too long), and i was just a tiny bit inspired by smart people trying to help the world. i guess it's always nice to see that, indeed, despite huge conglomerations or obnoxious companies, there are people and places who do the right thing. well.. depending on your definition of right. but really, how can you ever blame tfa?
anyway, i feel like i'm calming. i don't know if that's the right word, but it's a "okay, this is all alright" type of brainwave that allows me to move smoothly along with life at a decent pace. call it happy? nah, not so much. happy just seems euphoric or something. it's too much to aspire to. and there are always things that easily allow you to be unhappy. but that "unhappy" term also seems too drastic or opposite.
anyway, enough babbling. i'm doing alright. good.
off to play in the sun!! and grow my little seedlings!
:O)
posted by steph at 10:29 AM
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