This morning on my way to Communications class I stopped to get a cup of coffee. As I was paying for it, I was captivated by a ‘cup’ of Skittles for sale. It was called stow and go or something. So I decided to drink the coffee right then, and save the skittles for class.
As I was sitting there in class, I realized this stow and go concept has ruined Skittles for me. Instead of sitting there paying attention, and occasionally sneaking Skittles, I find myself really distracted by the colored candy. When I stopped to think why this was, the answer was clear. When you eat Skittles in the bag, all you can do is hope for a good shake to yield good colors. You have very little control about what colors come out of the bag.
However, eating Skittles in the cup gives you full color control. This is a welcomed feature, until you’ve eaten all of the Reds and Greens off of the top layer. And so the digging begins. You feel compelled to dig for the good colors. Because you can. It’s a candy power rush. So once I ate most of the good colors, I became desperate. I started furiously digging, with my whole hand in this tiny cup. I pulled out a red one, and looked at it like “My Precious”. So with a smirk, I brought my rainbow colored hand to my mouth, and I ate it.
I’ll never be able to go back to the bag because the cup gives you so much power, but clearly, the power of the rainbow isn’t safe in the hands of men.
Joshua Ziering
Now, I’m not sure whether it is intentional, or on purpose, but I think that one of my roomates is playing games with me. He’s kind of …lazy or something. That doesn’t really bother me, but it has made for some interesting situations. Take for example three days ago. We ran out of the 10 roll of toilet paper that I bought. It kind of made me upset that he hasn’t replaced it because it’s all of his stupid friends who come over and use our bathroom. That’s not really what’s bothering me though.
What’s bothered me is that he hasn’t said anything to me. He hasn’t bought new toilet paper. And that little cardboard tube with the last bits of toilet paper stuck to it? It’s being picked over like the Christmas ham. So it seems we’ve been playing a dangerous game of “Who is going to blink first?”
It was kind of fun while it lasted. However, I woke up this morning and went to take a shower. On top of the toilet I noticed a roll of Bounty. I decided that I was in no rush to use “The Quicker Picker Upper”. The package says it’s the “Best Ever”, but I decided it wasn’t good enough.
Blink.
Joshua Ziering
This post is for me, no one else. So if you were expecting something light hearted or entertaining, sorry. Since I lose everything, I decided to put these somewhere they can’t get lost.
6 Month Goals
- Ace Second Semester. All A’s. Down the line. Focus all energy towards making school my bitch, and therefore alleviating the stress it causes.
- Consider Pursuing a Major in Communications, something I am (Somewhat obviously) passionate about.
- Win an IMAC Contest, moving from the Basic class to the Sportsman class.
- Get my sport pilot’s license.
- Stop being such a wuss, and start talking to girls.
- Start back up my computer business, start branding, and gain a client base in the valley.
12 Month Goals
- Get my private pilots license.
- Move to the Advanced IMAC Sequences.
- (Re) Declare my major.
- Try doing stand up comedy at one of the local area clubs. (The Improv, Laughhouse etc..)
- Have my computer business generating enough income to allow me to buy or make payments on a pickup truck. Compact cars don’t hold IMAC planes.
- Be published in QuietFlyer magazine for 3 reviews.
- Further my blog so that it receives 100 hits a day.
- Buy an IMAC Plane that is my own.
Long Term Goals (In No particular order)
- Become and instrument rated, instructor dual engine rated private pilot. Perhaps have a part time job flying commuter planes or ferrying around airplanes.
- Win the IMAC Nationals, and place higher than Jason Shulman in the worlds.. (Who I think is the coolest pilot in the circuit.)
- Get paid to do a set of stand up comedy.
- Get published somewhere other than a Model airplane magazine, and have people I dont know say good things about it.
- Graduate with a degree, from ASU.
- Buy a house.
- Buy another house and rent it out.
- Buy a plane.
- Do something for a living that I don’t hate.
- If I should happen to hate what I do for a living, It better be adding zeros to my retirement account.
- Start my own business and ultimately sell it. (Entreneurship)
- Figure out what is so FRUSTRATING ABOUT COMPUTERS, fix it, and make my money by selling the idea.
It occurred to me I can’t expect great things from myself if I am unsure what they are. So, above are some things I am working hard to make happen. This is the most calculated and motivated I’ve ever been.
Joshua Ziering