Sweet Tea and a Cloudy Sky

I am intrigued by the girl that is watching us. She has been watching us all evening.
We've been writing papers and mingling, meeting, learning.
I wonder about her thought processes.
Does she want to talk to us? Is she watching because she wants to be a part of our community?
Maybe she's judging us.
She's giving us values and putting us into groups in her mind. She's organizing her social atmosphere and placing us at the lowest layer, the least important strata.
I find this hard to believe. If she wanted to disassociate herself from us, why would she stay so close for so long?

Today started out pretty good, but has gotten progressively worse, so the beginning of this post is going to be rather inconsequential ranting.

I went out to pick up some craft supplies in preparation for Valentine’s Day. In order to get to my car, I have to take a shuttle to the parking lot that freshman at my college are required to park in. This shuttle happened to be 20 minutes late today. By the time I got to the store, it had been closed for three minutes. Not wanting to have gone out for nothing, I decided to run by Safeway to do some grocery shopping. I found nothing that I wanted and completely forgot to grab more water bottles, so I still have nothing to drink in my house. Not to be outdone by chance, I decided to stop by Ruby Tuesday and grab dinner to go. Let’s just say that didn’t go to well, and I now have pasta sauce everywhere.

I’ve been trying to balance everything in my life recently. School and work have been hard to get used to, and I’ve already missed an assignment in a class. I’ve gotten interested in photography again, and am thinking about buying a new camera. I want a higher quality camera, but I’m not quite sure what to get. Ideas?

I’ve been paying an extraordinary amount of attention to the internet the past couple of days. I’ve been reading blogs and becoming much more immersed in twitter. I’ve actually payed attention to a little bit of news, and realized that there is actually a lot more information available than I thought – which is saying something. I would like to take some time to go on a tangent about fifteen year old girls.

There is a certain company I know of owned by a fifteen year old girl. The company is exactly what you would expect – they sell necklaces and other jewelry, presumably handmade. While I can appreciate the initiative the company has made, I don’t think that owning said company is enough to lift the owner to rock star status. Maybe I’m wrong, but I personally don’t like being told to “stfu” by a fifteen year old business owner because they aren’t near a computer to unfollow me on twitter. I never told you to follow me.

Today is meant to be a day of getting things done. A day where everything I’m working on comes together and turns out the way I want it. A day of not getting distracted and actually putting myself wholeheartedly into my responsibilities. What kind of mindset is needed to get these things done? How can I train myself to focus on the task at hand?