I just worked out for and hour on my exercise bike while reading Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami. I have always found working out to be a great way to clear my mind.
While I was showering afterward I was thinking.
- “I have so many cool things I could do. There are so many awesome ideas to pursue and fun things to do. Why am I standing here in the shower instead of doing them?”
I am not entirely sure I can come up with a reasonable answer to that question.
I’ve been keeping quite busy the last couple of days. School takes up a lot but the little extra time I have I spend trying to make a little file upload demo in Cappuccino, which is really awesome. I love being able to code Objective-C and then just refresh my browser to see my application running in there instead of on the desktop.
Another very awesome thing is that I have now been officially approved as an iPhone Developer, meaning I can develop apps on my own phone and if they get good enough I can start selling them in the App Store. The entire application process took only 6 work-days which I have to say is very impressive! I’ve heard of people having to wait months for their licenses so that was pretty awesome. The first app up for development is essentially a phone version of DHG, which I hope can get quite awesome.
There is in fact so much awesome, that I can’t stop thinking about all of this awesome, resulting in me not getting any sleep. The upside of this is that it will result in tomorrow being very much less awesome and hopefully I’ll be able to get some sleep then.
I can’t wait till Christmas break when I’ll actually have some free time!
This week I chose to experiment with my schedule. The project I work part-time on needed a bit more work this week. I haven’t worked the last 5-6 weeks because school took up too much of my time. School doesn’t take up just as much time right now (the last 4 weeks it’s been 10-15h per day in school) so I decided to work a bit now, but while I spend like 8 hours in school it is kind of hard to get home and work 2-4 hours after that.
To manage to do it at all and still have time to eat and read news and like, be human, I had to cut back somewhere. I decided to try to cut back on sleep.
As you might be able to tell from this blog post, a weeks worth of sleep deprivation haven’t exactly been good for me =P
The first couple of days it worked really nice and it felt awesome to get a couple more hours of awake-time each day. But now toward Thursday and Friday I feel pretty trashed.
The weirdest thing is that in high-school I usually didn’t sleep more than I did this week, quite often I slept less. A lot of weeks during high-school I got 4 or 5 hours of sleep on average and some days I didn’t sleep at all before going to school the next day. Sure I wasn’t 100% okay after one of those weeks back then either, but I’m sure I felt quite a lot better than I do now.
I’m getting old :/
Creativity:
the process by which one utilizes creative ability
I’ve been keeping quite busy lately. As a sort of surprise, school is becoming more work. It’s not necessarily harder, but just more work. I have to spend a lot more hours. Which leaves me with a very few amount of hours to be home before I go to bed.
This is a stage in life which… strangely enough; I kind of like. Maybe not being in school all day, but at least being busy. I think Emanuel explains it very well in his latest post (including a hand-drawn graph!) over at eferm.com.
He comes (with the help of the notorious _why) to the conclusion that a person who creates things, have private projects running and actually produce something real is defined by their creations instead of something as, to me, extremely non-defining as school or music taste.
To tie together with my quote from the dictionary. Creativity is something often used for artistic people and people with huge abilities to inspire emotion by way of expressing themselves through creation. I would not call myself a creative person, but after reading “the process by which one utilizes creative ability”. I must say that I am quite familiar with this process, so perhaps I am indeed a creative person? I don’t know. I just know that I like to create, and I would much rather be defined by my creations than by my age and preference in clothes.
While you ponder this bit of philosophy, I shall leave you with my latest bout of creativity – which will be put up on location at the DreamHack event:
When you begin to study at a Swedish college (at least every technical college) you are assigned to a group of like 10 people with 2-3 people as coordinators. These coordinators are supposed to help you through your first couple of weeks of school, show you where everything is, how stuff works and stuff like that. I think my coordinators did a very good job, though I didn’t get to know them very well.
I just noticed on Facebook though that one of my coordinators has started studying in Tokyo. Reading his blog I get extremely home-sick. I want to go back there and I just want to be there! I want to eat lunch at Design Festa, I want to go to Akiba to look at figures and check out new cameras, I just want to do all the stuff, I just want to be home.
I’m meeting with the international department (the department handling exchange programs) on the 30th, but it seems I misunderstood what the double-exam thing I talked earlier about really was. The information is really unclear, everything you can find online and in brochures indicates you take your masters degree there, but when I spoke to the head of the international department on the phone, she said the program was to extend your education by 2 years to take another masters degree – something I’m not very keen on.
Maybe I can get into one of the programs that my coordinator got into. Maybe I can survive here for 2.5 more years and then get a job there. Maybe.
