Daily Photography - 8.26.08
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A beautiful Chicago Skyline - I love this city.
Woah.
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I think deserves a Joey Lawrence “Woah”, you know, circa 1998.
Things couldn’t be better.
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Not sure if anyone out there is still reading this, but I just wanted to let you know that I am doing incredible. I’ve got a great apartment, good roommate, go income, great city, nice gal, and a goal in mind.
This time next year I want to be packing up and moving to another city. i will be going back to grad school. I think it’s time to make everything happen that needs to happen.
Let me know if you’re still reading this - I intend to update this a great deal more!
-Kris
Also, I’ve seen Batman two times already. So, yeah. that’s nice.
Excel(ling)
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A work sponsored trip down excel lane…I am an excel pro right now.
More to come.
-Kris
Sadly, this program is quite amazing.
I’m…so…tired…
Posted by Kris Mansour | Filed under life.
Not really, I slept in. But this article hit the nail on the head.
Tired of having people, when you cordially ask them how they are doing, reply with “I’m sooooo tired!” Then, you know, you have to ask how “Why are you so tired?” Even though you don’t really care too much. It’s kind of like eating a piece of cake that you just wanted to look at, same thing. You aren’t hungry, so why are you eating? The cake isn’t on sale? Double whammy. Check this out and slap yourself if you fall into this category.
My philosophy: You can sleep when you’re dead. But then when you don’t sleep too much you will die sooner. Rock and a hard place, folks.
http://men.style.com/details/blogs/thegadabout/2008/05/being-tired-is.html
23, baby steps.
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What am I doing? Should I be doing this? How is this going to help me? Where am I going? What does this all mean? Where am I heading? I should have done this. I need to do this. I need to do this better. Woah, it seems that I need to slow down for a second and take a breather. OK, that’s better.
The last 8 months (nearly) have been a big transitional phase for me. Not only have I begun to pay bills, commute, work, and establish a new life – I’ve had to, wait for it – Grow Up. I think tonight solidified that idea for me. Tonight was the mini-celebration of my good friend Mike’s birthday. As of right now, Mike has been 23 for 43 minutes – it’s 12:43. Sure, this all sounds fine (while I can blissfully ignore my approaching birthday on July 3rd) but if I’ve been taught anything by life, it is this – everyone’s time comes. The time comes fast and the time doesn’t wait for you. While you are making plans – life’ll hit you. Before I know it, life will hit me and I will be 23.
23: Just Old Enough for Everything.
When you turn 23 everything becomes yesterday. You can now drink for the last two years – so that’s not new anymore. You could have been, depending on which state you reside in, smoking for the last 7 years – so that isn’t new anymore. You are two short years away from getting cheaper car insurance (yay). The Presidency is 12 years away…I can now run for President in 12 years, wtf. Apartments, and bills, and girls, and flights, and love, and life, and job, and social, and goals. Rather – “and perpetually unreachable goals.” No matter how good I do something – I find a way to be unsatisfied with it. I keep pushing in my never-ending pursuit to have done it all. Photography, Music, Life, Travel, Family, Design – I want to say I’ve done it all, and have done it well.
So here I sit, very confident that the next 8 months will go by just as quickly as the last 8 months; that the last 2 years will go by faster than ever before. As I load up the plate of life, I continuously add extra helpings that I just don’t think are good for me. I know I am not alone. We have been built up into this machine of a generation. A generation of the perpetually schooled, find my career by 25, and ‘drink my $12 martinis’ overachievers to which high is not high enough. To which good is not great – therefore we are constantly perplexed when a+b doesn’t equal happiness. We are doing everything those movies tell us to do and we just aren’t feeling correct. I think we may need counseling as a generation. We need to begin taking life for what it is.
On a lighter note – I guess 23 won’t be so bad. Billions of people have done it before. What makes me different? I guess I need to man up and take the bull the those proverbial ‘horns’
In Sum – look at the positive, dance like no one is watching, give a dollar to a homeless person once in awhile, laugh with your friends, eat plenty of food, and pursue what you love doing.
Take life for what it is – enjoy the rollercoaster, sometimes you may want to vomit…but at the end you might get some kick ass pictures of it (for a charge, of course).
Kris
iPhone blogging, son.
Posted by Kris Mansour | Filed under awesome.
I have officially figured out blogging from the iPhone…jackpot.
Brillllllliant.
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Who would have thunk it? The spread of technology has let people’s voice be heard. And what are the people saying they want? Comical Remixes of Bill O’Reilly’s Rant! Of course!
Some Mother’s Day 2008 Love
Posted by Kris Mansour | Filed under Daily Photography, awesome., life.
Below are some solid pictures that I had the pleasure of taking this past Mother’s day…enjoy.
Also it should be noted that I am watching the final disc of a three part series called “Commanding Heights” about the changing world economy. Mother’s Day and these DVDs? Unrelated.
I miss writing.
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see above.
yep im still reading, sometimes
(i have bookmarked this...