The Packing Chronicles, Part 2

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Packing Chronicles, Part 2

This past Friday, I gave myself three things I wanted to accomplish over the weekend:

1. Dye my hair
2. Cook/bake all the food in my apartment
3. Apply for jobs

 Things from that list that I actually accomplished this weekend:

1. Dyed my hair
2. Attempted to cook/bake all the food in my apartment

Operation Dye My Hair

So I successfully dyed my hair. I've had the hair dye since before graduation because I had wanted to dye my hair for graduation. Clearly that happened. It's a medium auburn brown. So really it's just my hair color (maybe a tad darker) with a hint of red.

Just a hint of red. Easier to see in sunlight.

Operation Cook Everything

I decided I would cook/bake all the food in my apartment so that I could start packing my kitchenware. This way all my food could be in the freezer and all I would have to do is microwave it. Then I could pack up my pots and pans, most of my dishes, most kitchen utensils, and other kitchen stuff that I wouldn't need. Well, Operation Cook Everything was a bit more of an undertaking than I thought it would be. Plus, I actually have a life (surprising, I know) and didn't want to spend every minute of the weekend getting adventurous in the kitchen. What I accomplished to cook/bake:

• Lots of macaroni and cheese
• Lots of fried rice
• Vegan chocolate cupcakes with almond "buttercream" frosting
• Coconut cupcakes
• Couscous
• Quinoa with black beans and corn

Vegan chocolate cupcakes.

Coconut cupcakes and vegan chocolate cupcakes

Coconut cupcakes with coconut pecan frosting and topped with shredded coconut.

Operation Get A Job

Well, I looked at job postings. That's as far as that went. A little lacking in motivation at the moment for that. None of the jobs really appealed to me, and I guess I shouldn't be picky, but whatever. Something will happen. Speaking of jobs, I had a dream last night that University of Hawaii offered me a job and I couldn't decide if I wanted to accept it or not. I woke up feeling completely stressed out - not a great way to wake up. Also, not really sure what that dream means other than I have no idea what I want to happen.

The Packing Continues...

So I'm hopefully going to go full force with packing this week. I have clothes, kitchen stuff, bathroom stuff, and not much else to pack. Oh yeah, and a fish tank. I started preparing today to move my fish tank over to the Housing office, who are inheriting my fish tank because I really can't move with it since I don't even know where I'm moving to. When I say I've started preparing to move the tank, that includes buying a new fish... because that's logical. Oh well.

Meet Cyrus. My new fish, that will soon become Housing's.

My packing/moving advice continued:
3. If you don't want to be distracted while trying to pack, just break up with your computer. By which I mean the battery is dying and needs to be replaced. Not a big deal, it just needs to be plugged in all the time. So, charger stops working. Told my computer that I think it's right about us needing a break. Unlike TSwift, we are getting back together as I gave in and ordered a new charger. I'm lucky enough that I can borrow a work laptop in the meantime.

Secrets of Success

30-Day Challenge #1: TED Talks
Day 6

Alrighty. So yesterday I said I'd look for something a bit more serious than tying your shoes correctly, and maybe a little funny. At least I think I said that, and I'm just running with it anyway... So I did just that. Today's talk by Richard St. John is about the secrets to success. It's another short one, but he very quickly lays out the 8 secrets to success. I think he points out very good characteristics that people often forget about. We all want to be successful in life so this is relevant to us all. It related to my day a bit too, but I'll bore you with that after you watch the video.



Okay. So I hope you liked that. It was short, but informative. I personally found this one fitting for me, especially today. I am in grad school and in less than two years will be entering the professional world so I hope to be successful. I hope to be successful in school and in my career. This is really relevant to me today specifically because i just got back from a meeting where I got to talk with people in various areas and stages of student affairs. It gave me an idea on what they've done to be successful and they were able to give me advice on how to be successful. A lot of what they told me are things that are mentioned in this talk.

One thing with these TED talks that I want to mention is that it's important to reflect on the knowledge we take in. We learn a lot through reflection; reflection on our lives, our mistakes, our achievements, our work, etc. So it's important to take in what the speaker tells us, but to also relate it to our lives. Take these 8 secrets to success and reflect on whether or not you're using those secrets. I know that I have passion, I work hard, I certainly persist, I have ideas. I do serve and do some good, but I could probably serve more and do some more good. I could definitely push myself a bit more and focus a little harder. I could brainstorm for ideas a whole lot more than I do. I know my strengths and I know my weaknesses and I try to work on making my weaknesses not so weak. People sometimes focus only on what they're good at, but it will make you far more successful if you maintain your strengths while improving your weaknesses.

So that's my bit of knowledge for today. Also, I learned today that October is apparently National Careers in Student Affairs Month (CSAM). So if you're interested in Student Affairs as a career, or have no idea what it is then you can check out the website about CSAM which will tell you all about Student Affairs and how to become a part of it. Or ask me some questions and I'll answer what I can. :)