A commercial hit me square in my thoughts, as it said:

"If you have the passion, why not dream?"

Good things happen when my facebook page is unavailable:  I sleep earlier, I do my homework, and I google search too many things.

One of my google searches today was the Culinary Institute of America.  Yup, it's the most wonderful time of the year.  I sent in my application on Friday and it's about to be processed and I'm pretty stoked.  Because of that, I decided to go to the site and just read up.

Bad Idea.

Reading up on these articles or visiting the site itself drives me nuts.  I know that I earned my keep, I know that I'll get it, but it drives me crazy how far it is before I get there: I start to think about how many more quizzes, days in El Camino I have left, and I'm starting to visualize how I'm going to leave.

I really don't want to look too far ahead, but it excites me.  And because of any excitement or anxiety of sort, I have the propensity to run a controlled chaos in my station:  I get the order, I get some right, and some I purely screw up and throw in the trash.  Totally against my morals, but I have to do what I need to do...

For now, I'll follow Pratt's advice and smell the coffee, take my time and enjoy life as it goes.