Step Away From the Cake

Yeah, exactly. I've got dreams. I've got big dreams. I've got dreams that I am super, duper excited about. Dreams that I cannot wait to put into action. Dreams that are the fulfillment of dreams I've had all my life. Huge, towering, dreams that will make me so happy. Not only will they make me happy, they are within my grasp. They are completely within my control. Whether I succeed or not is completely up to me. I am in the drivers seat. I don't have to wait on anyone to do anything; well, a little. I literally have my future in my hands. And what have I done about it? Not much. In the past couple of months, I could have made so much progress and I haven't. I'm very angry at myself. So, drawing a line in the sand right here. Today everything changes. No more planning, scheduling, figuring things out. Today everything starts. I have a lot to do and I just want to get it done. I want my Ph.D. I want to move to the mainland. I want to be able to travel duri...

I was not as productive as I had hoped to be. Spent a lot of time in the pool and screwing around with my new Macbook Pro that school gave me. I hate apple. I wore my new glasses all day yesterday, for the first time, and I really think I like them. I bought them online from Zenni optical. I was a little leary of doing that because a) it's online; b) it's glasses; and c) I had to measure the distance between my pupils myself. Oh, and they were less than $80. My last pair of glasses were around $400 and that was on sale. Needless to say, I was a little bit leary about how good these glasses would be and how they would work for me. When I got them on Friday, I put them on and found that I could see really well if I looked straight ahead, but if I looked at an angle things got a little weird. My immediate reaction was oh, crap, they are wrong. But I could see so well. Also, with my other glasses, I found myself looking over the top whenever I was doing computer or close work beca...