Peaceful Easy Feeling Posted January 16, 2003 at 12:00 am

At the end of the day I had a nice feeling of self-satisfaction. Why? Because today was an unusually productive day.

I woke up at 7:00 AM because the service agent from Azuma Leasing was supposed to arrive some time between 7:00 AM and 11:00 AM to fix our washer. Well, as it turned out he didn’t show until about a quarter to 11:00. My parents have been in town since Tuesday so my mom came over to visit while I waited. I finished the code for my first ECE3055 assignment and mom helped me clean almost every aspect of my living space. After the washer was taken care of we headed to a nearby Blimpie for lunch, followed by a grocery run to Publix. After filling my stomach and my refridgerator I had to speed off to class.

Statistics was unexceptional but the Professor Hayter let us out about 15 minutes earlier which was just enough time to head over to the College of Computing and get my ECE3055 project checked off by a TA. Titus’ cute TA friend Maryam wasn’t there so I had to settle for a manly Chinese man. Shucks. With one ECE project down, I headed to Van Leer to meet Michael and take care of my other ECE class. Within another hour we had knocked that project out too. At this point I was already feeling pretty satisfied with the results for the day. Unfortunately, I didn’t get the opportunity to go out to eat with my parents again. They apparently managed to find an excellent restaurant in my absence.

I will close with an idea that I had this evening which totally goes against all reasonable slacker logic that I have known and embraced these years past. That is: To be productive is to be happy. He’s mad I say! Maybe I am. It’s just a thought and by no means complete or all-encompassing. It’s just that when I looked back on today and thought about why it was a good day, I discovered that it was because I got a lot of stuff done. So now, instead of worry about the things I need to do, I’m doing the things I want to do. Maybe others can do that any time but I don’t seem to be so gifted. Regardless, whether I can keep it up or continue to get the same fuzzy feeling remains to be seen.