The Franco-Taiwanese Alliance

What do I want to do?  What are my goals?  What are my priorities?

Starting Monday, I’m going to be attending Auto Tech/High Performance Powertrains classes at Wyotech, so that’s 7AM-4:10PM M-F covered.  I want to turn that into some kind of career building badass cars, preferably for racing.  If I can get into racing myself, so much the better, although I don’t think I’m ever going to be super-awesome at it.  I’m definitely going for trackdays, though, as much as I can.  I’ve got such big plans for vehicles to acquire and mod and drive the shit out of… but first, I’m going to spend the next nine months eating and breathing cars.

I think I’ve mostly decided that cars/motorcycles and motorsports are what I want as my main priority.  There’s still a shit-ton of other things I want to pursue, but at least for now, this is the big one that I’m choosing to focus on.  It’s going to be a tough road, because I really don’t have all that much experience or knowledge to start from, but I’m going to work my ass off.  I kind of see this as my chance to redo school… I never really gave a shit about high school or college, and so I managed to pass, but didn’t honestly get much out of either one.  My English Literature B.A. is a testament to just how easy it is to get through liberal arts undergrad.  This time around, though, I’m going through a program about a subject I actually really, really love and am passionate about, and which will actually help me in terms of tons of practical knowledge.  Time to kick some ass.

Interestingly, though, I still also need more focus in my choices of hobbies.  There are just too many things I love and want to do, and I often can’t get myself to commit to any of them enough to actually DO anything.  Especially with so much less free time, I’m going to have to really push myself not to waste my time sitting around doing nothing anymore.

It’s insomnia again, for the second night in a row.  Alice starts her fall quarter classes tomorrow morning, so we turned in at a relatively sane hour of 1:45AM.  After only three episodes of Heroes, too… responsible adults!  We started watching the series Saturday night, after making up from an argument (hi Ryan).  We ended up burning through about 12 episodes Saturday and Sunday nights, staying up until around 5AM each time.  Not good for our sleeping habits!  I’m starting at Wyotech this coming Monday, so I’ve got to get back on the regular path myself.  I hope it’ll be worth it.

I neglect this blog mightily, and I think part of the reason is that I’ve forgotten that I’m supposed to just be keeping a personal journal–albeit a public one.  I make too much of my posts, try and insert some meaning into each one, whether it be some meaningful idea, a review of something, or just trying to keep a regular record of something I do.  I forget that I’m not a critic or reviewer, nor is this the Great American Novel, nor do I really, really need to keep track of every push up I do.  I have this problem all the time… everything I do has to be meaningful, has to be progressive… and in the process of overthinking the thing and planning out how significant it’s going to be, I forget to actually do it in the first place.  Old cliches are sometimes best… just do it!