I've been "sleeping" on the job of keeping this blog rolling. What kept me from doing this was plenty of distractions. Distractions that came in many forms and at different times.
First distraction: Adobe Lightroom 2.2
This program gave me the chance to turn crappy pictures into less crappy ones. the products are posted at my tumblr site: http://captainfatsphotography.tumblr.com/
Shooting a lot of pictures outside ate my time and my money. The camera I was using ate a lot of AA batteries. And those batteries are not cheap either.
Second Distraction: Photography
My friend lending me her camera made things worse. Once I got hold of her old-ish Nikon E-6400, I have snapped almost 400 pictures in the span of two weeks. I walked while taking pictures of anything that caught my eye.
Third Distraction: Dorm Life
As much as I enjoy living in the dormitory, it eats away almost all my time. A lecture here, a meeting there and a lot of time consuming dorm-mates. That makes for a lot of time spent not doing academic work.
Well, distractions aside, I've learned a lot of things. Well, mostly photography things. But that led me to question myself on what am I planning to do with these things that I have learned? Do I really want to teach? Why am I thinking this way? Is there something more to life? Is the burger I left in the fridge rotting? Why is the sky blue? Why does the sun go on shining? Why am I asking this?
Wanting to learn a lot of things is a great thing. I believe in that. I want to be a photographer (as of the writing of this post). I wanted to be an engineer once, I failed to be one. I wanted to be an astronaut, it won't happen. I want to change the lives of people. I hope I won't fail this one. And I know teaching is the best way to do this. I won't fail on being one. It's time to wake up.
I should wake up now.
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