Feng Shui

Hi there!

I'm back, although I don't know for how long.... I turned in the first copy of my thesis to my advisor last week, so now I'm now on summer vacation until I get the thesis back from her, which could happen at any moment, so it's a threatening vacation.

So, with my new found freedom I decided to put away all the crap in my room and hang up my pictures. I pondered how I should decorate my room for quite awhile, and decided that simple, minimal, and peaceful would be my theme - feng shui, if you will.

As I started hanging things and moving things and taking a considerable number of things out to the garage for "storage," I began to notice the walls filling up and the floor space getting smaller and smaller. So, I was like "Crap!" This is the opposite of feng shui! I have every color scheme in the rainbow going on here, and crap all over the place. And despite my best efforts to have my room look sophisticated instead of like a college dorm room - even though the stuff I have is the same stuff I had in college, I had failed.

I began to get frustrated and considered throwing away all of my possessions and just sleeping on a grass mat. But then I thought to my self, "Self, why are you trying to be the opposite of what you are? The river cannot be the rock, nor the eagle the gazelle!" (I was still in my feng shui mindset when I said this to myself). And then I realized, my life is anti-feng shui. I am forever running around taking on too many tasks, making new friends, whose pictures I then have to hang on my blank, would-be-feng-shui-friendly walls.

So, I have now embraced my anti-feng shuity, as did my mother and grandmother before me and my room looks like a bag of skittles threw up all over it, which is more like me.

And yes, if you're wondering I haven't eaten yet today and am slightly delirious!

N-out