I’ve never been able to deal well with being bored. In fact, it’s safe to say that boredom is one of my least favorite human emotions. I think I used to (probably still do) drive my biological father crazy when I visited him in the Podunk town he lives in. One pizza parlor, one grocery store, one bowling alley and one theater that boasts documentaries on the Mt. St. Helen’s eruption every hour, were never my idea of a good time. “Can’t you just relax?!” he’d say when I wanted to go to dinner, shopping “in town,” or anything that got me out of the trailer he lived in on three acres in the middle of nowhere. Collecting caterpillars in a jar grew old after age 10. Life at my mom’s and life at my dad’s were always night and day.

Perhaps I learned it at a young age, but when I start to feel a little bored, I think about all the things I can do or change so I DON’T feel bored. This last part of winter has been so mundane, so I started searching for anything and everything to keep me busy. Now, I’ve suddenly found myself with quite the list:

• Teaching myself Adobe GoLive via two tutorial books that I bought off Amazon.com, so I can design my own portfolio Web site
• Assembling a portfolio to apply to the Academy of Art in San Francisco
• Beginning a pro bono copywriting project through the Taproot Foundation, where I will be copywriting a brochure project for Page Ahead—a local nonprofit advocating child literacy
• Two job interviews this week and continuously trying to push out three resumes and cover letters a week
• Staying after hours at work to spend a couple hours trying to finish Vanessa and Larisa’s uber-late, two-year birthday project I’ve been designing (it’s a surprise)

I feel DRIVEN to SUCCEED right now.

Currently Feeling: Nervous about all this WV application stuff coming through.
Currently Anticipating: The interview I have with a rad ad agency on Thursday.
Currently Worrying About: My boyfriend. I haven’t heard from him in nearly two weeks! Yikes.