Destiny

Perhaps my personal life has never been great because my professional life is destined to be so great that it needs to be balanced out by shittiness. And I'll be damned, if my personal life is going to always suck, then stuffed if I'm going to bother myself with it. Instead, I'll focus on the one thing about my life that I can control-- my career.

I spent the whole weekend networking, pretty much. Talking to the people I had met at GSA, organizing and updating my notes, updating my resume and Linked-In profile. It felt great, actually. I enjoyed doing it. The next tasks are to tackle some of the geothermal literature, and to consider joining more organizations.

Then today, I secured my three thesis committee members. It's going to work out perfectly! My thesis advisor, of course, for the geothermal perspective. My strat professor for the sedimentary perspective. My future hydrofracking professor for the fracture perspective.

And the hydrofracking professor seemed pleased that I had asked him aboard for my project. He even is allowing me to bypass the prerequisite for his class because he sees how useful his class will be for my thesis. He had been a guest lecturer in my thermal class this semester, so I think he's interested in getting into the geothermal side of things instead of the petroleum side.  So, yay! And he is so nice. And kind of reminds me of my ex, T.J. Which I think is a good sign.

On my walk home, I was listening to the song Trains by Porcupine Tree. My ex James got me into that song. But as I was walking, it seemed to perfectly fit my mood: not quite happy, but excited, and accepting of my destiny. My smile was so wide that some guy grinned back at me and said hey to me as he passed by.

And hey, I'll take it.