So in an attempt to introduce some therapeutic writing back into my life, I decided to blog again. The only thing that gets me done about blogging, is unlike the journal I keep, blogging is posted so that other people will read. What's sad about that? No one's actually reading. Or at least, I don't think they are.
On a typical day, I usually have some sort of class, library time, maybe work and almost always cheerleading. It's tough to have a day like today that goes somewhat like this:
7:45am wake up, eat something
8:30-9:45 class
9:45-10:15 run home because I forgot to wear nice clothes for job and internship fair
10:15 - 1:00 Library, study straight through for accounting
1:00-2:00 J&I, basically sucking up to whoever shows up to job and internship fair and hope for the best
2:00-3:15 accounting review session
3:15-3:30 hang out with cheerleaders to pass time
3:35-4:50 astronomy class
And not it's 5:11 and I'm back in the library before grabbing dinner and going off to three hours of practice.
Throughout my astronomy class where students asked the typical question: what in the universe is going to kill us first?, I asked myself, what am I doing? We seem to throw ourselves up against the wall, day after day for the grades, the perfect internship, hitting the routine perfectly. For what? On a day like today, where I've gotten between 6 and 7 hours of sleep each night for the week, I have to wonder: what is driving me?
I used to think it was myself. I wanted to see my report card look pretty with As and I really wanted a high GPA. The numbers were driving me. Numbers were simple. You could look at them, find a good range and aim as hard as you could for it. I liked numbers, I always have. I like right and wrong, good and bad and in calculus and accounting, these all exist. In accounting, you do the bad stuff and you go to jail. Numbers and incentives, simple.
Eventually, we get to college and those numbers become even more important. What is in your pay check? Who is going to pay me the most money? Obviously, this is very true for business majors. We are constantly reminded of the numbers, no matter what concentration within the business school you choose. As classes and exams get harder and the pressure build, the ability to do right every single time becomes extremely hard. Out of the seven tests I have taken this semester so far, I got a 95 or higher on three of them. Perfection slowly becomes out of reach for most of us.
Part of me, wants to quit, leave it all behind. It's not that I don't believe I could do it, it's that the drive is no longer there. Sure, I like to see the 95s but I don't understand how I will study over ten hours for the accounting exam in order to get one. Part of me wants to go back to Europe or start an NGO but something stops me. It's the crossroads and some of us seem to know exactly what they are doing. Yet, those of us that fake it, have to stop back and look at ourselves. We need to find what drives us and attack that. Leave the numbers out of it for just a second and do something we like. That's why I'm blogging instead of studying, because at the end of the day, it's 20 minutes of something I like.
That's my opinion of the day. Astronomy will really get to your head.
Thursday, March 24, 2011
Friday, March 4, 2011
A note from the shipyard...
With fashion blogs worldwide a buzz about the latest “Let’s get dressed up, everybody look at me party in Hollywood”, (commonly known as the Oscars), it forces me to wonder what’s up for Spring 2011. Every year, while picking up winter comfort food at the supermarket, dreading the walk to our cars in rain boots, snow boots or a hybrid, we spot the color issue from InStyle or “How to look hot this Summer” from crowd favorite cosmopolitan. You want to pick it up, right? I think: It’s 4.99, that’s a Venti Caramel Macchiato at Starbuck’s, but my snow boots tell me the magazine will bring far more satisfaction. This is, of course, if I read it in bed, under a heating blanket, pretending its already June.
So, why the spiel about the Oscar’s and the mags? Well, we couldn’t be style experts at Six in the Shipyard without these. Just like Warren Buffet watches Bloomberg and predicts what the stock market is going to do, we read fashion blogs and magazines and watch what the “trend setters” are doing in order to predict our “market”. So what’s “in” for Spring? Well, if you watched the Oscars with pen and paper in hand and stalked photos from Fall Fashion Week in Paris, you would have noticed two very important shifts.
High Neck Lines. They say in economic downturns, clothing becomes more conservative. Skirts get longer, sleeves creep their way down arms and necklines get higher. Why does this occur? Well, you could come up with a hundred reasons, but a few stick out. Back in the day, times got tough and you turned down the heat and piled on the layers, this is making a come back (hello, oil prices going wild). Another important thing is conservative clothing is that it shows austerity. Somehow, even without realizing it, you are telling the world, I’m being frugal, I’m being “safe”.
Seventies is all the rage. While I was born in 1990, I know those who had their teen years and early twenties during this epic decade for fashion, have been secretly wishing the styles would come back. I’m sure there is a plaid blazer or a high waisted flowing skirt tucked away in several closets across the space taking up space until fashion trends allow them to see the sun again. Well, ladies, pull ‘em out and dust ‘em off. Gucci’s Fall 2011 line comes bursting through with deep teals, burnt oranges, mustard yellows and a color I like to call seventies purple. The clothes have a brilliant retro look, something you found on a few daring females attending our famous Oscar’s last week.
Seventies is the perfect mixture of conservative style with wild colors. Take a look at what you wore during this week? Was it black and white and boring all over, every day? It’s time to switch it up ladies. Put your own flair on conservative and go local. Come to six in the shipyard. We have fun eclectic pieces for both your wardrobe and your home. Pair old with new, we have jewelry and household items starting at just $5. Don’t worry about being frugal, 6 in the Shipyard will get you that runway look and ready for Spring on a budget, every time.
Oscar Looks:
http://notesbyamy.blogspot.com/2011/02/modest-reigns-again-on-oscar-red-carpet.html
New York Style Article:
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/02/25/t-magazine/27well-skirt.html
See you by the sea.
<3 Camille
Referenced: Glamour, Fashion Lvrs Blog, New York Style Photo Archives
So, why the spiel about the Oscar’s and the mags? Well, we couldn’t be style experts at Six in the Shipyard without these. Just like Warren Buffet watches Bloomberg and predicts what the stock market is going to do, we read fashion blogs and magazines and watch what the “trend setters” are doing in order to predict our “market”. So what’s “in” for Spring? Well, if you watched the Oscars with pen and paper in hand and stalked photos from Fall Fashion Week in Paris, you would have noticed two very important shifts.
High Neck Lines. They say in economic downturns, clothing becomes more conservative. Skirts get longer, sleeves creep their way down arms and necklines get higher. Why does this occur? Well, you could come up with a hundred reasons, but a few stick out. Back in the day, times got tough and you turned down the heat and piled on the layers, this is making a come back (hello, oil prices going wild). Another important thing is conservative clothing is that it shows austerity. Somehow, even without realizing it, you are telling the world, I’m being frugal, I’m being “safe”.
Seventies is all the rage. While I was born in 1990, I know those who had their teen years and early twenties during this epic decade for fashion, have been secretly wishing the styles would come back. I’m sure there is a plaid blazer or a high waisted flowing skirt tucked away in several closets across the space taking up space until fashion trends allow them to see the sun again. Well, ladies, pull ‘em out and dust ‘em off. Gucci’s Fall 2011 line comes bursting through with deep teals, burnt oranges, mustard yellows and a color I like to call seventies purple. The clothes have a brilliant retro look, something you found on a few daring females attending our famous Oscar’s last week.
Seventies is the perfect mixture of conservative style with wild colors. Take a look at what you wore during this week? Was it black and white and boring all over, every day? It’s time to switch it up ladies. Put your own flair on conservative and go local. Come to six in the shipyard. We have fun eclectic pieces for both your wardrobe and your home. Pair old with new, we have jewelry and household items starting at just $5. Don’t worry about being frugal, 6 in the Shipyard will get you that runway look and ready for Spring on a budget, every time.
Oscar Looks:
http://notesbyamy.blogspot.com/2011/02/modest-reigns-again-on-oscar-red-carpet.html
New York Style Article:
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/02/25/t-magazine/27well-skirt.html
See you by the sea.
<3 Camille
Referenced: Glamour, Fashion Lvrs Blog, New York Style Photo Archives
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