...has been way, way too busy.

I'm co-coaching the Wushu team here at the University of Oregon, and my classes seem to be giving more workload than I estimated. Hmm. Exams tomorrow and next week but, dear god, can I not focus!


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Mrh!


After today's training session, I just wanted to train more and more. My knee's still injured, but I've got no complaints; I just want to get better. Make team in two years. Nandu in 6 months. /sigh

I love it more than anything (more than maru the cat)(okay maybe), but its also somehow holding me back from the 'realistic' aspect of school in relation to my career.

My current 'art' courses have been incredible dissatisfying in that they're teaching me how useless vanilla-design is for 90% of the population. It gets worse as I weave through TED.com. Design-thinking, on the other hand, is what the world needs to solve problems in the most semantic way possible. Unfortunately I'm not an architect, engineer, or physician; I can only make semi-pretty pictures and throw a mean kick. What good is that? Not sure. Bruce Lee change plenty of lives shirtless, and Banksy makes urban spaces interesting.

These weeks have been amazing, but those thoughts have been tearing little holes in the back of my head where the good moods sometimes fall out of. Its not a bad thing, just a happen-stance of change...like walking into an ocean mid-winter, which I've done, it was really, really cold, but facing waves at 1 am when the tide gets crazy made me feel all sorts of manly, ohh yeah.

...that's growing up, right? /shrug


Soon I'll be working on some shirts for student groups, posters, and hopefully some personal projects in the coming months. I've neglected any sort of creative work but I guess its just that time of year.