Back-2-School

Lesson of the day: the academic year is slowly and slyly creeping it's way closer and closer. In laymen's terms, summer is quickly coming to an end.

It seems like more and more of those school shopping commercials are airing on the tellie and our Sunday papers are becoming littered with the ads for notebooks, dorm ware and clothes. At the beginning of this summer I was so excited for school in the fall and now all I want is summer.

This summer was nothing that I wanted it to be in the beginning. I wanted to live in Duluth and have a job in Duluth as well. I wanted to find a car and lose 20 pounds. None of that happened and I feel like a failure, sort of. I do have a job, actually two jobs, in Buffalo. I don't make a whole lot of money but I guess I get by. I will be  moving to Duluth a little early so I guess it isn't so bad.

When I get back to school I am going to have to really commit to a job hunt. It's a long and excruciating process when there aren't many jobs available. =[

When this summer ends I am going to have to become more of a grown up. I am going to have more bills, more things to worry about (like bills), and I am going to have to take more initiative because no one gives handouts to an adult, even if they are a college student.

Summer is almost gone, what?

Lesson of the day: there is not much time.

There isn't much time left this summer to enjoy this summer anymore. I haven't found a job in Duluth and I am not making enough money in Buffalo to have any fun. Wish I would have been more ambitious at the beginning of this summer. 

I have just about three weeks before I move back to Duluth to have a fun and enjoyable summer. Between my two jobs I don't think I'll be able to do much without sacrificing some paychecks. =[ 

I may just have to suck it up and hope next summer is better. It better be. I should, should being the major operative word, have a job in Duluth by that time. When I get back to school I am going to work my @$$ off to find a job.

And, I HATE PAYING RENT WHEN I AM NOT EVEN LIVING IN MY HOUSE! College life can be cruel sometimes but that is no reason not to go to college. 

Divine guidance.

Lesson of the day: think a little deeper than you have to. It could be good for you.

Saw Christopher Nolan's latest, Inception, last night. So good that I'd say it made best film of the year. Crazy interesting plot line. Leo DiCaprio plays the main character Cobb. He and his team enter the human mind through dream invasion to steal secrets that are locked away in the subconscious. This part of the mind is most vulnerable during dreaming.

Cobb is asked to plant an idea instead of stealing an idea, which is much more dangerous. When you plant an idea you run the risk of it being inauthentic when you really want it to be genuine. It has to feel like it was genuinely inspired by the dreamer in order for it to be successful.

genuine
gen-u-ine - adj
not fake or conterfeit; sincerely felt or expressed

inspiration
in-spi-ra-tion - noun
divine guidance; arousal of the mind to special or unusual activity or creativity; a product of your creative thinking and work

So what is it really to be "genuinely inspired"? Of the approximate 70,000 thoughts the average human brain has in a day, how many of them are really genuinely inspired?