It’s a beautiful fall in Bozeman.
I’ve discovered the simple pleasure of the way leaves crunch when I walk on them. It’s wonderful! Also wonderful is riding my bike through lots of leaves. It makes a hissing noise of sorts, but in a good way.
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Mood is such an issue of choice. I choose to be happy, or I choose to be depressed, or I choose to be grumpy… I’ve arrived at this conclusion but a curious occurance that happened on my way out of my French class. I didn’t go to bed last night, so I’m certainly not of the most clear mental state at the moment. Walking out of my French class, however, I saw a friend from Cheyenne, and the first thought to go through my mind was “what sort of mood am I in? I’m in a depressed, lonely and isolationistic mood. I don’t want to talk to him.” No sooner than I had finished thinking that thought than I realized “no, I’m happy and hopeful today.” And I smiled and was happy and hopeful. Upon being happy and hopeful, I stopped to reflect on the patter of thought which had just occurred. My mood had changed 100% in a fraction of a second. It’s a CHOICE. Always a choice. I can choose to be grumpy and irritable because I’m tired, or I can choose to be silly and goofy because I’m tired. I haven’t been aware of this choice in the past, but I’m certainly going to exercise this ability to choose in the future.
I get the impression that the implications of this discovery extend just beyond the mood and state of mind after having not been to bed in many many hours. I think that my overall state of mind, be that happy, sad, depressed, excited, apathetic, uber-motivated, lonely, content, etc. are all states of mind which can be experienced, affected by outside factors, and chosen. Henceforth, then, I choose to be happy. Henceforth, I choose to be motivated. I didn’t do very well last night. Instead of doing my homework like a good student (I haven’t actually sat down and done homework in quite some time: bothersome…)
Hmm. It’s 3:08 AM and I have French homework to be doing. And class tomorrow at 9:00. Ug. I don’t think I’m going to get to sleep tonight. *tsk* What a shame…
I was looking back over my blog, and I discovered something: my blog used to be humorous from time to time, instead of this incessent stream of angst. I suppose, if one were sufficiently sadistic, my angst could be humorous as well, but it wasn’t designed to be. As such, in an attempt to revive blog patronage, I’ll post something funny:
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A blonde is on a four-engine plane crossing the Atlantic. All of a sudden there’s a loud bang. The pilot announces over the intercom “I’m sorry, one of our engines has just shut off. We’ll be delayed 45 minutes.”
Suddenly there’s another bang. Once again, the intercom clicks on and the pilot expresses his regret that they’ll be delayed two hours.
Shortly thereafter, there is another bang and the pilot announces that they’ll be delayed 3 hours. The blonde turns to the guy sitting beside her and says, “Man, if the fourth engine shuts off we’ll be up here all day.”
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Heh. Enough. Life’s looking up. Time to get back back to my French. Goodnight!
I made it five steps on my slackline! I’m a PIMP!
I’m a loser. It’s a Friday night, and after watching a movie alone (True Romance), I’ve been spending time on my computer. Tsk.
My room reeks of beer because one of my roommate’s brillient friends put an open can of beer in William’s backpack, which is now sitting in our sink for some reason. Speaking of William, he was very drunk by 8:00PM and is now passed out in his bed.
My slack-line arrived today, and I spent some quality time with it tonight. I’m really bad at this point, but I think I’m going to really come to enjoy it. I’ll upload some pictures some time.
Speaking of pictures, I completed release 1.5 of my photoalbum utility, and uploaded some pictures of my hike to Hylight Peak last Saturday. They can be viewed at: http://www.eateggs.com/photos/hylight/
I’m climbing Blackmore tomorrow morning, which means that I need to go to bed so that I can get up in the morning and go.