Imagine this...

take a moment and think about what you could be doing other than what you're doing...
Today I went to Cedar Rapids (a town about half an hour north of here) to apply for a barista position at a coffee house. Can't picture it? Yeah, I can't really either. But my philosophy is, if you think about doing stuff, then you should go ahead and try to do it. I kind of like the idea of working in a coffee shop, hearing local music acts, and then working at the church in cedar rapids on weekends. Oh the artist's life! But going there, and seeing the dumbass 20-year-olds that I'd have to work with, hearing the lame conversations, the self-important folk typing away on their laptops (I make fun of them, but you know if I could, I'd be typing this blog from a coffee place, not the college library, right?), I don't think I'd be able to deal with that scene. Not to mention the god-awful track lighting. Picture an entire building lit by track lighting. It totally screws with your vision.

My point is, you gotta at least try. You gotta at least check it out. You'll probably still sit around thinking about things that you think you might want to do - but at least you'll be thinking about DIFFERENT things, not the same old unrequited dreams.

All this is reminding me of Patty Griffin's song, "Useless Desires".

While I may not have found my next career, I found a very nice drink called a Chocolate-Covered Strawberry Mocha.