Hi, I’m Laramie, and I have a problem. A daydreaming problem, that is. Maybe not your usual, run of the mill addiction, but an obstacle nonetheless. I’m sure you can relate; you are suffering through a particularly boring class/meeting/conversation, etc. and you allow yourself to drift off momentarily into your own personal happy place. This is all fine and good until you snap back into reality and discover that you have no clue as to what has been going on for the last however many minutes. Let the smiling and nodding commence!
I know that I have a very lively imagination, and a sort of wistful, hopeless romantic personality. This is in no way helpful, since it basically means that my mind will wander off into fantasy land every chance it gets, which is often! My summer “internship” requires very little brainpower on my part, and this allows my thoughts to pretty much romp and frolic about as they please through the vast meadows of my mind. Although this may be a good (and entertaining!) way to pass the time, it really does nothing for my productivity, and I’m pretty confident all this staring off into space makes me look like a goon. (okay, maaaybe not the best example!)
It’s gotten pretty bad, actually. On not one, but two separate occasions I have gotten into an elevator (the same one both times, incidentally) and an undetermined amount of time later became confused as to why I was not moving. After some detective work, I solved the mystery: I had neglected to push any buttons. Wow.
I have also come to discover that all this daydreaming is often not the best for my mental state. You see, I daydream about all sorts of wonderful things, like occurrences I would like to be happening in my life or desired scenarios of upcoming events. (By the way, anyone who is thinking anything along the lines of “Well quit daydreaming about what you want in life and make it happen!” may kindly go to hell.) This being said, my daydreams are usually extremely inaccurate, and once I return to the land of the conscious I am disappointed that my life isn’t a wondrous fantasy world and the things I want to happen in all likelihood will not pan out the way I want them to. I give myself high hopes, only to watch them crash down around me.
Moral of the blog entry: Things will happen the way they will happen, so I should just chill out, not take my daydreams seriously and deal with the fact that they are just that: dreams. Live in the present, woohoo!
This moral sounds unbelievably cheesy and almost inspirational. Yeah, screw it. I’m going to daydream as much as I darn well please, as long as I don’t do it while behind the wheel, who cares, right?
…there was a girl named Laramie who got her own website. Holy cow, I have my own website! I am extremely excited and mostly clueless, so we shall see what happens. Many kudos and thanks to RWB for getting everything all set up for me!
It’s so handy having friends with useful life skills, like computer savvy-ness and library cataloging. I suppose if you needed to know the mechanisms of any cellular processes or anything about the structure of DNA I’m your girl, but this knowledge seems a bit less useful in everyday life. Granted, without these things there would be no everyday life, but I digress…
I’d like to use this site/blog to share my thoughts and musings on life and such things, and also to show off some of my favorite photos, like this one:
If anything, if will be a good outlet for my miscellaneous thoughts!
So, TTFN until I can think of something clever to say!