I just finished a research project for my professsional writing course. We had to make a portfolio with a bunch of different stuff in it. One thing we made was a fact sheet that could only be one page long, and it had to summarize our research. Well, my empirical research report was 13 pages long, so I was worried about how I would summarize everything onto one page without it getting too crowded. I also wanted the fact sheet to look as professional as possible, so I worked on design elements for five hours. And no, I'm not crazy. I'm just extremely picky.
Turns out, I am more talented than I give myself credit for.
Not only did I condense everything to less than a page worth of content, I designed a very impressive layout. It was the best one in the class, honestly. My instructor told me that I might want to include it in my professional portfolio, then she corrected herself and changed her suggestion to a firm demand that I include it in my portfolio. I didn't hear her do that to anyone else.
Moral of the story: Staying up until four in the morning might be in your best interest.
Another Moral of the story: There's nothing wrong with being picky.
Next topic.
Today Aurie slipped on the snow on the way home and scratched her arm and muddied up her pant leg and froze her feet and hands. Apparently, I laughed at her. I didn't mean to, I really felt bad that she fell--it's not like I get a kick out of her misery. But I have this horrible habit of laughing when I don't know what to do about a situation and I don't even realize I do it.
One of my goals in life is to be the type of person who can respond to any situation in a classy, attractive way. I want to be the type of person people are happy to just be around. I can't be that person if my automatic response to distress and awkwardness is laughter. So I've got to stop that.
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
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Best interest is a matter of opinion.
Congrats on your report, I'm glad that all your hard work payed off in the end and that you came out on top. I'm going to go out there and say that most of the class probably didn't put a fraction of what you did into yours.
Keep it up, but as a suggestion, put together a balance of taking care of school work and taking care of yourself, there's only so much a person can take, even your amazing self.
It's always interesting to figure something out about yourself that you think you need to work on, it's those little (or big) things that we do every day that help us figure it all out and become our very best. Imperial philosophy says we can be whatever we can imagine ourselves as, a lot of the time it ends up being pretty fantastic, but it goes for more down to earth ideas too. I'm sure you're well on your way to cool and collected. Just remember to never forget all the aspects that make you who you are right now.
I've yet to meet anybody who doesn't seem happy just to be around you, still, be the best you can be without compromising who you are.
aha! something else that auri and i have in common!!!
we both slip on the ice!
like, if there's an ice spot to be slipped on, my little foot/feet will find it!
okay, so my foot/feet aren't so little.
but if they were, you wouldn't be able to have my shoes, now would you???
(was that a good enough comment to have a blog dedicated to me?)
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