Decisions, decisions

As some of you may know, when it comes to big decisions, I like to agonize and analyze and over-analyze for days and weeks on end--a process that becomes occasionally irritating to my more decisive family members and friends.

Recently, I came up with a great solution to my indecisive nature: GoogleBATTLE. Rather than spending hours talking through decisions with anyone and everyone who'd listen, I'd just type my choices into GoogleBATTLE and go with the most popular option. Simple and efficient.

Tonight, in an attempt to make a major life decision, I typed two options into GoogleBATTLE, blithely confident that this test would solve my problems.

The result?

A tie.

Back to the drawing board.

Best commercial ever?

I think possibly yes.

Collaboration!

Dreams

Last night, I dreamed that I lived and worked on a farm where my primary responsible was taking care of and choosing names for three teeny, tiny newly-hatched chicks. I woke up before I pinned down names for each of them (mostly because I couldn't tell them apart), but we managed to still get in a pretty good time playing hide-and-go-seek together. It's actually pretty hard to find baby chicks that are only two square inches in size.

Perhaps my subconscious wants a vacation?

Made with love

"Craftsmanship to be artistic in the final sense must be 'loving'; it must care deeply for the subject matter upon which skill is exercised."

--John Dewey, Art as Experience, p. 69

This is why, then, my Thai curry is art, and my thesis is not. Today I do the work of writing the thesis and tomorrow I practice the art of making curry. (Yum!)