A single straight line,

[thailyn]

It's been a while, hasn't it? I have big plans, you know. Big plans for so many things. But, sadly, it seems that I never get any closer to realizing those plans. Sometimes I wonder if I get more a thrill out of making plans and thinking about what it would be like to achieve their results than it is actually seeing them through. I think that

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[teenytinytina]

haha, i think it's time you stop thinking about what you're doing and just go ahead an do it already :). to be honest, this summer i "planned" (in the loosest of meanings possible) to do research and to learn to cook on my own. and those two tasks are enough to keep me satisfied. well, now and learning chinese. having all of the univeristy library a few blocks away doesn't hurt either

[thailyn]

At this point I'm not worrying about what I'm doing specifically. It is more that I'm just wondering about the whole reasoning behind how one picks out what he'll do, how much he wants to do one thing versus another. I have a certain way of doing thing right now, and for the most part I don't want to change it. Of course, I do want to actually do things instead of just sitting around thinking, "oh, I should do this, that, and the other thing." But what I dream of doing is, more or less, what I want to do. At some later date, when I actually get myself to do things consistently, I'll assess what it is that I'm doing. That all makes sense, right?

[teenytinytina]

hmm, now that i read over my comment, that makes no sense at all. but i do still think the most important thing (for a summer, at the very least) is to pick something you find fulfilling. something i've always admired in you is that you always want to do things perfectly. at the perfect moment in the perfect way and everything like that... probably just because i guess my methods have always been slightly haphazard (for example, you actaully bother to spell check your lj entries :P, whereas i have no spelling skills but don't really care if things are wrongly spelled or wrongly grammered). but point being, i don't think that's a bad thing. maybe balance would be better, but maybe not. it doesn't really matter if you ask me, as long as you get what you want out of it and are satisfied.

and i guess i might be a bit biased, because i'm probably having the most satisfying summer in a long while. lab makes me happy. it seems each summer the lab i pick becomes more and more happy. i don't know why, but arr... mice now. i'll

[thailyn]

I agree that the most important thing is that one is satisfied by what he does, but I know it is so easy for someone to get into a schedule that he ends up never thinking about and asking himself why he's doing it. Things change, and he's still there doing the same thing, for good or for ill. And it's also, perhaps, suitable for someone to do more "unoriginal" things while he's still, shall we say, ignorant and unable to contribute. But it's important to know when one reaches the point where he knows enough to contribute and changes his daily activities to reflect that.

And yeah, that was a pretty bad example in your fist comment. But that's okay. :)

[lukertin]

Goodness gracious man, way to write a novel for a journal entry. If I could ever do something like that, I'll be sure to copy your journal-writing abilities. Anyway. Go ahead. And make your deviantArt. I need artistic support (using you as a standard to determine whether I suck or I rule! LOL!) but no, c'mon and enter the world of literary peer review

[thailyn]

I half agree with you, that many crowds are unable to produce comments that actually help you and they're "emo fools" (present company excluded, of course), but I half think you're just looking in the wrong places. I've been looking at other blogging sites, for one, and I've noticed the bloggers have a more "serious" tone to it all. Livejournal, like MySpace, attracts the younger crowd, and these people (and I'm guilty of this myself) have a tendency to indeed post emotional knee-jerk reactions to what they've had to deal with that day

[lukertin]

Charles, I don't think you could ever be classified even REMOTELY likened to an 'emo fool.'

For example, the similarities between you and the person(s) exemplified in this movie border on close to nothing.