{"id":168,"date":"2006-09-01T03:46:29","date_gmt":"2006-09-01T03:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.akumaprime.com\/?p=168"},"modified":"2014-10-01T16:01:50","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T16:01:50","slug":"omg-its-september-what-am-i-going-to-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/akumaprime.com\/?p=168","title":{"rendered":"OMG, it&#8217;s September&#8230; what am I going to do?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"photo sharing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/akumaprime\/230834423\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 2px solid #000000\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/68\/230834423_b184245b55_m.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/akumaprime\/230834423\/\">Shadow Monk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Originally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/akumaprime\/\">AkumAPRIME<\/a>.<br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Well, it&#8217;s officially September 2006; my Birth month. As I approach a quarter of a century, I start to wonder&#8230; What the Hell am I DOING?<\/p>\n<p>Then I freak out for a bit&#8230; in fact, one second, I need to freak out&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Pushups always help alleviate freakouts, anyway&#8230; Birthdays and milestones, such as New Years, tend to be times of personal reflection for us. This happens to be a time of Great personal reflection for myself, and despite the introspection and things I glean from it, I am filled with feelings of fear, frustration and failure. I won&#8217;t go into details on that. Once I get Past those, I am left with questions.<\/p>\n<p>What do I want? How do I get it? Am I making the right choices? How would I know?<\/p>\n<p>I want to go back to school, and I want to travel. I feel like I&#8217;ve found a nice synthesis of the two in applying for graduate studies internationally, thus satisfying both my cravings.<\/p>\n<p>What happens if I don&#8217;t get accepted? Then I will continue to travel and fund my way by teaching in the various countries I&#8217;m visiting&#8230; and taking that time to figure out what to do next.<\/p>\n<p>What about now? I read a lot, I&#8217;m on the computer a lot, I exercise a lot&#8230; I&#8217;m bored.. A LOT! It&#8217;s not that these things are boring. It&#8217;s just that I feel static, like I&#8217;m gaining no experience and thus no levels. The other day, my parents needed help at the office with some computer stuff they couldn&#8217;t deal with. I was able to go in, get the job done, and save them maybe $200 or so bucks. I felt useful. I also learned some things during the work.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m on Maslow&#8217;s 4th step and I need to figure out how to get to the doorway&#8230; Well, the way up is to study for this GRE and get some research hours in. These two things together will help lock me for the Universities I choose.<\/p>\n<p>So that&#8217;s up to me. How well I focus past the computer, 1001 books, exercise, friends, women, dogs, family, food, movie, tv, comics, games and million other obstacles in my path&#8230; Well I guess we&#8217;ll know in 2 months&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>SITE NOTE::: Due to the fact that I&#8217;ve been getting Massive amounts of blogspam, if you want to leave a comment, you have to register first. This is a pretty quick and painless process. The Register and login link is on the left sidebar&#8230; Ctrl + F, find Register, if you&#8217;re blind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shadow Monk Originally uploaded by AkumAPRIME. Well, it&#8217;s officially September 2006; my Birth month. As I approach a quarter of a century, I start to wonder&#8230; What the Hell am I DOING? Then I freak out for a bit&#8230; in fact, one second, I need to freak out&#8230; Pushups always help alleviate freakouts, anyway&#8230; Birthdays [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-is-like"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/akumaprime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/akumaprime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/akumaprime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akumaprime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akumaprime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/akumaprime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/akumaprime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akumaprime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akumaprime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}