Go time!

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Glee

Currently listening to Glee Season 1 ost.

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Happy birthday to me!

I always wondered if saying something like that made you seem pathetic or sad or snooty to the outside world. I guess now I'll know.

Today is my birthday. I am now 24 years old (note to self to change that in my profile here). Today's agenda: take my micro 101 lab exam (probably do okay), attend 100w (with or without my outline), attend to my students (life doesn't stop for midterm season), and then dinner with my love to celebrate me have lived another year.

How have things changed for me now that I'm 24? Well I'm deinitely feeling the pull to gtfo of college and finish this off. People my age are graduating from graduate school for crying out loud. Of course, once I graduate this fall, I'll still probably have to come back to school to take a random assortment of courses to prepare for the credential program. But still, the one major milestone, getting a 4 year degree, still is not within my grasp.

I wonder sometimes if I'm a lost cause, just going at something because its the right thing to do at this point. Shouldn't I be passionate about what I do? I enjoy teaching, but am I passionate about it? I'm not sure. But then again, am I passionate about anything, really? Its moments like these that tell me I'm destined to be just another lay person, which may or may not be a good thing. I think I'm going to end up like that guy that you see cleaning the Dallas Cowboys stadium at the end of a game. Its not a job he's passionate about, but it gets him by, and he can provide for his family, etc.

Which brings us to the question, is being passionate about your job a necessity? Can't you just ho-hum about your job, and be passionate about your family? I don't mean to say that your job is boring or anything, its still gotta be a job you don't mind working, but maybe not exactly your passion.

High school teaching, for me, could become a passion. Or it could go completely 180 and make me despise switching out of pharmacy.

We'll have to wait and see. Right now I need to go study for this test. Haha.

Will report back at the end of the day, when I start studying for my next test.

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Fine tuning my ears.

All that complaining I did about my skull candy paint earbuds and how they required you to plug them deep into your ear, sealing it completely to outside noise, and allowing you full enjoyment of the whatever it is you were listening to?

Now I can't go back. My regular sony bass earbuds don't give me enough of that rich sound anymore. The headphones do, but they're these giant kinda fugly cups with a super long audio cord that, for someone who's got their iPod in their pocket on their person, is a huge hassle.

I guess its headphones or those earbuds for me from now on.

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Not enough space on the G2 iPod Nanos.

Option 1: go buy a new nano. Comes in a variety of flavors, and you get all the new features, plus video.

Option 2: Pay my girlfriend a visit, and get my 160 GB G3/G4 iPod classic.

Secret option 3: Spend some time reorganizing the data on my current iPod nano while I wait to go to dinner with my girlfriend tomorrow, and grab the iPod classic then.

The one that makes the most logic, esp with my lack of time in my schedule today, is option 3.

Good to know I'm doing the right thing, even if it means I can't listen to Buzz Out Loud and the various 1Up podcasts. And all the new music I got.

I hate doing the right thing.

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Skipped a stop, arriving early.

Which is a good thing, because I could use the down time to wake up.

I was up at 6 today, but a combination of subscribing to NFL.com's news rss feed and finishing up my assignment meant I wasn't out the door until 6:50, leaving me only ten minutes to get to the Oakridge platform (this means parked and locked the car). Luckily, I hit all greens and was able to park with about 30 seconds to boot. Socks, shoes (lab today), and the next thing I knew the train was starting to pull in. I had just enough time to grab the nano, headphones, and my backpack. Thank god my remote lock still works.

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Fail at life. Audiowise.

What kind of person can't put on headphones correctly? How hard is it to place the earbuds in the right ears, and correctly as well, as to allow for maximum enjoyment of the music/podcast/book/whatever one is listening to?

Me. I'm that kind of person.

I should've read the manual. Goddamnit

P.S. At least they are "noise cancelling." (Read: they plug your ears so much all you hear is the audio from them)

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