"But you know," she's saying, "it could take five, ten years to get anything like that together. And it'll cost so much money...I mean, even if I started right now...it's the waiting that's the killer --the waiting to be wherever you plan to be. The groping through the days..."
"Everything takes forever."
"Right. To know exactly what you want to be doing, to know exactly what you'd make, given the means, given some time, all the projects lined up, the body of work, have it all mapped out -- who will be involved, what the office will look like, where the desks will go, couches, hot tub..."
page 144
This passage really struck me while I read it. I meant to post it awhile ago....anyway, it seems to really hit home these days with graduation looming on the horizon. Essentially four more months of predictability, and then we will be left to our own devices, our own means, and must find some way to carve our own niche out of the great woodwork; to leave our mark. The waiting really IS the killer.
Monday, January 5, 2009
Friday, January 2, 2009
happy new year
...well. i'm here and checking...and reading...and thinking...is anyone else checking? and happy new year, ann page.
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