Wake Up Sid!

Just got home from watching Wake Up Sid and LOVED it. Sorry, I couldn’t find a trailer w/ subtitles :



But basically it left me with this feeling of wanting more ambition. Actually, no, it’s not that I lack ambition, I think it was just dormant for a while - and this movie awoke it! The surface story was about this girl, Aisha, coming to Bombay on her own and eventually falling in love. The subterranean story - which appealed to me more - was about her moving to be more independent and transforming her dreams into goals and then her goals into reality. I loved how driven she was when it came to getting (and fixing up) her own place, getting the job of editor’s assistant (and then continuously writing articles and placing them on her boss’ desk until he decided to publish her), putting her dignity over everything else (even though the guy she liked was LIVING with her).

I realized that for the past three weeks that I’ve been at school, I have been taking the easy way out of EVERYTHING: I’ve walked into the library a grand total of three times and successfully learned on maybe one out of those three visits. Every time that I think it’s time to get serious and work on school stuff, I call up a friend and hang out until there’s no more time left in my day. I haven’t called work or signed up for clinic OR gone to office hours.

Of course, it all comes down to me wanting to spend my time with a certain someone...and by no means do I regret any of it. However, it’s time to WAKE UP (Sid!) Vanessa. It’s not all bad though, positives have been: pretty frequent gyming (even though I signed up for the chancellor’s run and race for the cure so I need to pick up the mileage), pretty decent eating habits, learned two new songs and a picking technique on the ukulele, got positive feedback on my first Fiction writing assignment, won a raffle at the Body Shop's "Pamper Party," and only skipped one class. This all sounds like an extension of Summertime though...time to get serious. However, I think by calling my plan to act “getting serious” is doing it an injustice, because it has connotations with sadness and despair. Being busy is actually really fun and fulfilling...not just the end product, even the line from Point A to Point B. I’ve heard it takes ten days to get into the habit of something, so I will try to make these next ten days a step towards the greater goal (acting like a driven college student...get that swagger back) and hopefully I can drop some of the bad habits I’ve picked up (aka Summer-esque dealings).

In addition to what I was talking about earlier, the final message that WAKE UP SID left its audience was to take a break from the busy lifestyle that one leads and let those around you (“those that make the city more lovely for you”) know that you appreciate them. As cliche as that sounds (is), I can’t wait to get so busy to the point where I will be excited to let people around me know that I appreciate them!

short list before I forget:
1. start volunteering in clinic
2. actually go to office hours once you’ve caught up in classes
3. decorate wall with birds on cable
4. Qur’an it up more...daily.
5. don’t actively see people on the weekdays - create discrepancy between days and ends.
6. sample built to spill’s new album.