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Don’t Quit Your Day… School?
Thursday, September 11th, 2008 | Life | 1 Comment
I’ve got to say, this summer has been kind of frustrating. Not just because I’ve had to pay attention to increasingly tense political debate, nor just because we’re prolly gonna die in a month, neither is it just because I might finally get a working and (gasp) entertaining website off the ground again in a week or so, but because there’s oh so much more I’d like to do. AM PM likes to say they’ve got too much good stuff, but honestly hot dogs only go so far. I’ve always wanted to make an album of game boy version of At the Drive-In songs, program a video game for a mainstream console, play a concert for a crowd of people who aren’t just your parents and obligated friends, and make a movie about something that no one would possibly pay for, but it can’t all happen in one summer. It was probably asking myself a bit much even just to commute from Federal Way to Seattle to go to a class, do research, and have time left over by the end of all of it for my friends and loved ones.
A stumbling block of mine has always been transitioning between activities. My senior year I took four AP classes, was a member of like four clubs, came to school an hour early each day for jazz band and expected to get the most out of all of it. I’ve yet to find a way to be happy with getting one thing done at a time. If I could just work really hard on my Spanish accent and get that out of the way I feel like I’d have accomplished more than I did this summer. The fact of the matter is that I want to do all of it. The phrase “jack of all trades but a master of none” comes to mind. Familiar for some reason. You know.
That web site will probably be a good start.
I’ll keep y’all posted.