Before anything else, I’d like to say that I love my life and I wouldn’t trade one bit of it for anything I had in the past.

Jim asked me if I felt any older after my birthday. I told him I didn’t but I thought about it again…

I suppose I do feel older somehow. Mostly because I’ve learned more about life and how things work but also because I’ve accepted the fact that even if I’d known these things before, I probably would have made the same mistakes — which isn’t so bad because I look at who I am now and I know I’ve become a really good person.

There was a time when I felt like I wasn’t doing anything good with my life; like I had no direction whatsoever. I felt like I was just taking up space. But my attitude towards life has changed a lot since then. Young people always think they’re invincible — like they’re going to live forever — but over the years, I’ve become increasingly aware of human mortality. I like to think that I’m living the life I want, doing what I want to do, and making sure I’m doing everything necessary to accomplish my goals. But I also know that doesn’t really make me better than other people, it’s just that I try harder.

Every morning before I leave for school, my mom panics because she can’t find her car keys. I’m hoping that tomorrow we won’t have another episode of that because I found the keys in the bathroom and placed it on top of her dresser.

I had a pretty good day. My DESKPUB prof loved my design studies. I digitalized them during class this morning then emailed them to him.

I spent a few minutes during lunch sorting out the papers in my planner and I found this:

I’ve been meaning to blog but I’m swamped with schoolwork. I had to attend two ORDEV-B-accredited activities last Thursday then I had a make-up class yesterday (Friday). Only four of us showed up — well, six actually..but the last two showed up right after our professor had already left, they ran into him on his way to the elevators and they said he seemed pretty annoyed.

I have to work on a plate for DESNCON this weekend — a sustaining ad for a product (I can’t reveal what it is because we’re using it for another class), it has to be rendered full-color on a 10″x15″ illustration board. I’ll probably work on the project for my DESKPUB class first. I need to make 2 design studies each for a newspaper and magazine ad.

Then I have to revise some stuff for PROFES1 AND attend one more ORDEV-B-accredited activity and write the reflection papers so I’ll have one less course to worry about.

Good news: All of the courses I enlisted for next term have just been approved by my academic adviser.