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One of my many rules of thumb is that if I have a thought, I reckon it is pretty likely that someone else has had the same one earlier. That is what college (and seemingly, especially art school) is for: to show you that all the really good ideas have been taken and made into famous books, movies, or paintings. Lately, I have been noticing that when people I know are living interesting lives, their blog posts become less interesting. So I have been posting less in the hope that someone will be deceived into thinking that, perhaps, that I have been busy doing interesting things. I have not. Except, perhaps, this.
Mostly, I have been working on rewrites of two term papers for my early-exit Master's degree. A third paper has yet to be addressed. One of the papers was fairly decent to begin with; it required either (a) only a little work to make it presentable and decent or (b) a lot more work to really make it something (e.g. conference paper, journal article). In retrospect, had I been able to start out on the path that that paper was taking me, I might have been a much happier camper at the U. Alas, it is behind me now. As I explained recently to a friend, I may yet find myself in another PhD or JD program somewhere, but not now. I am thinking artist. Or writer. Or skydiver. Something that will really strike terror into my parents (it never gets old).
A friend of mine is one of two musically / artistically inclined children. He says that he is keeping his straight job just long enough for his sister to graduate college and begin her "meteoric" rise as an engineer.¹ I think he reckons that one self-sufficient or moderately successful child out of two is a 50% per cent success rate. My parents would be thrilled with 50%: they have been limping along with 25% for some time now.
¹ This commonly-used metaphor means just the opposite of what is intended. In what direction do meteors always travel? And what happens to them?
Posted by Underblog at July 27, 2005 5:41 AM
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Tracked on December 5, 2006 9:46 PM
Do you have the number for that meteoric engineer? I am looking for a sugar momma to support my art.
Posted by: generationbob at July 27, 2005 8:59 AM