Personal & Productivity 04 May 2008 09:54 pm
Idle thoughts
Today was one of those days where you think to yourself, "Wow, if I had a day like that every day of the week, who knows where I'd be."
Very curious — I often have productive days where you get a bunch of stuff done. Do X, take care of Y. Normal stuff that does nothing for you except keep life running smoothly. Those days are merely mediocre. Average. Not anything special. Today wasn't like that. I actually finished a final exam in a class that I will be very sad to see go. I absolutely loved psychopharmacology, and I really wish there was a Psychopharm II or a Neurobiology I. I also wish there was a computational pharmacology or some other kind of class that I could dive straight into. But I know that even if there were, I'd be lost.
And that's something I want to change.
Days like today make me wonder where I'm going with my life. I'm sort of headed back in the direction of more technical and "science-y" type stuff. Really getting into the nitty gritty details of the brain thanks to school, and on the side, doing quite a lot of IT stuff. Not the rewarding kind of computer stuff — the creative kind — but rather the Do X, take care of Y kind of thing. Nonetheless, it has sparked some old desires of mine.
A very close friend of mine is moving home in the next five weeks, and I can honestly tell you that I've never been so excited for something in my life. It's like Christmas that's been years in coming. Someone close to me made an observation that was completely out of the blue — "I think you two were meant to go into business together and do something great. But I think he needs to work in the private sector for a while and you need to be academic for a while."
Probably so.
