Thoughts on success...

...possibly derived from my recent failures to accomplish any of the things I'm trying to achieve.

Do you think success is just doing something right the first time? No! "Success" is when you try, and you fail, and you pick yourself back up and you try again. You try and you fail and you try and you fail and you keep on trying, and each time you fail a little less, and you achieve a little more, until one day you succeed completely. Success is not a singular event, and failure is not the opposite of success--success is a process and failure is a step on that path.

Maybe this will inspire me to get my rear in gear and get some things done over the weekend!

cul-de-sac

today I realized that the idea of living in a huge stucco house with a 3-car garage on a cul-de-sac in suburbia, next to a row of identical houses, is highly repulsive to me... maybe that's why I have had a hard time settling down and getting married :P

If I had a million dollars...

The other day I was talking to a friend about all the things we would do if we were suddenly billionaires (I think we were watching a movie about someone that won the lottery or something... I don't remember). After talking about the places we would travel, the stuff we would buy (for other people) and the charitable organizations we would donate money to, I said "you know, I would probably still be doing exactly what I'm doing in my life right now. Except I would have a nicer bike." That's right folks, if I had nearly infinite amounts of money at my disposal, I would still choose to be a *grad student*. What's wrong with me?

But, I would have a nice bike, so it would all be worthwhile. :P

In all seriousness, though, how many people are lucky enough to be doing exactly what they want to do in life? I mean, I'm getting PAID to live in Denmark and do astronomy. I should be paying someone for the privilege of being able to do this! This is awesome.

seriously, sometimes I wonder why I have any friends

From a chat conversation earlier today:

me: why are you friends with all these Mormons?!

C:Because they friended meeee

I HAD to friend them back

or else I'd feel God's wraith

wrath

me: hahahahaha

God has a wraith?

does he use it for a hitman?

C: stupid

I corrected it

me: wraiths are scary...

C: it was a typo

stop teasing

me: I don't ever want to meet God's wraith

:P

C: wrath!!!!!

me: did you ever watch Stargate?

the one with the wraiths?!

FREAKS ME OUT!

My life is awesome

I've been walking to work because I don't have a bike yet and it cost about $3.00 each way to take the train + bus combination that gets me there and I'm poor. The walk is great, and less than 30 mins (not really significantly longer than it takes on public transit, really), and every day I feel like I'm discovering amazing things. Too bad I usually don't have my camera with me or I would have some great pictures to share.

I have some awesome secret projects that I'm starting and hopefully I will actually finish one or two of them so I can reveal them. :)

I wish I had brought my art supplies--all I have is one small sketch book and a pen--because I have a bit more downtime here than I am used to and I could be making art. I will perhaps get them when I visit Boston in Nov.

Denmark is pretty cool.

My life :P

hahaha.

-Garfield minus Garfield

Today I was...

...chatting with a French-Vietnamese grad student that I met at Potsdam... I started putting on lip gloss while listening to him talk about photography and he stopped, seeming flustered, and then apologized: "sorry, I just don't see a lot of astronomers do that!" me: "um, that's because not many of them are girls..." :)