October 2009
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Procrastination
If I make a bet with someone that I will finish a paper for a class before them, and then they finish first purely because they thought it was due a week earlier than it is, and then proceeded to accidentally stay up all night until 430am to finish it, am I actually obligated to accept defeat?
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Apathy
I recently discovered a whole new level of apathy; I guess I always knew it existed, but never understood or appreciated it until now. Between school, work, and everything else, I’ve become so busy that I rarely feel shame or guilt anymore for saying “I really don’t care about {insert someone else’s problem here}…”
For me as a stagehand, I’m doing this...
“Break free and do awesome things.”
“In the next room, a Weimaraner has been knocked out and is being prepped for...”
– Dave Kestenbaum (This American Life, Episode #392: Someone Else’s Money)
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Ever have one of those days?
…where you drive 30 miles or something like that in rush hour traffic only to realize you have no idea how traffic was, how you ended up in the correct lanes at interchanges and off-ramps, and have no recollection how bad traffic was because you were clearly distracted by something that was taking up all of you brain power?
Yea, I’m having one of those weeks.
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What is the cost of your education?
I don’t know about you, but for me, that cost of going to college is a little shy of $10,000 every 10 weeks of classes, three terms an academic year, for the next four years. That does not include housing, fees, food, gas, or anything else. That puts me at $120,000 if I finish in four years, not including those other frills, as I now humbly think of them.
As a result, I sent out an...
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“Wearing headphones must be the international distress signal for, “I want...”
– via @thedayhascome
