Blog Assignment 1

         I have lived in Mobile, Alabama my entire life, but I have spent many of those days traveling. My parents have always felt it was necessary to let their children experience the world. On top of our annual Walt Disney World vacations, we have taken trips to places such as Denali National Park, Yellowstone National Park, Glacier National Park, Grand Canyon National Park, Arches National Park, and the national park list goes on and on. We have also been to Mexico, Canada, France, Germany, and Austria. A goal on my bucket list is to travel to every continent in the world. I have an older brother (a mechanical engineer) and sister (a lawyer) who are very important to me. Unfortunately, I will be the one making the least amount of money, but I hope it will not always be that way because I intend to draw some kind of income from an art career. I wish I had all the time in the world to devote to my art, but it never seems that way. Balancing my time between family, friends, work, and school is difficult and any time that I have remaining I only want to utilize as sleep! This is why I am pursuing a teaching career. I will have a lot of time off in which to paint and draw. My dream was to be an archaeology professor because I absolutely love learning about how past cultures functioned through our discovery of artifacts, but I have heard they have very little time outside the lab so I have settled with teaching history to high school students (possibly college students down the road). Maybe one day I can go back to school and get my masters in anthropology.


          On a day to day basis, I enjoy driving my manual car, running, boating, wakeboarding, baking, and eating breakfast cereal (In fact, I am eating a bowl right now).  I am a sucker for romance, old movie classics like Casablanca and Singin' in the Rain, and the fashion of the 1890s-1950s.  Finally, I think you should know that I am a dog person and a PC person and that will never change. ;)

Above is the famous ending scene from Casablanca drawn by me.

           Overall, I mostly already knew everything that Randy Pausch talked about in his video.  He just explained things in a clever, persuasive way.  However, Pausch made a very good point in his video that I had not thought of before.  He explained how if we had never had a plan to begin with, we should automatically assume failure.  I will admit, I am bad at time management and many times I do not set a plan for myself because I do assume it will change too much for me to be able to stick to it.

         Time Management Exercises from Penn State University makes some useful points.  I know I should focus on monitoring my time and identifying time wasters.  When I do have a lot on my plate, I should do the hardest things first; however, it does not always turn out that way.  Maybe this class will help me improve in all of these areas.