The title to this is something written on the blackboard at my work by an officemate. My admirably cynical supervisor saw it and thought it was "too happy". I got a chuckle out of that.
Speaking of my supervisor, she gave me the movie "American Beauty". God, was I ever impressed by it. I mostly enjoyed the theme of beauty woven throughout the cynical, sad story. It really relates to how I feel about the mundane random things in the world. If I focus on anything for long enough, I can see its beauty, and I am thankful that I am a part of it all.
In other news, I'm almost done my journey through the book GEB (mentioned in an earlier post). God, it's amazing. It almost makes me want to go into AI research. Maybe it's plausible considering the author did physics, and then came to AI later in his life.
But then again, I'm not that smart. : \
Maybe me saying I'm not smart is actually making me less smart. In high school, I always knew I was one of the smartest, and I got really good grades. It's pretty obvious that if you have low expectations of yourself, then you won't be motivated.
The trade-off is that you become arrogant with self-confidence. It all comes down to working for myself vs. being nice to others (or more cynically, my self image as niceties are evolutionarily a selfish thing).
Anyhow, enough of this finite digress (I love infinite regress after reading GEB). On to the main topic that has to do with the title. I feel great!
Like really. I'm spending more time on myself, I'm making progress at work, I'm gonna rock this summer term, I'm spending lots of time with friends, and I've been crushing over this aforementioned chick a whole bunch. I'm just simply happy right now.
"Gd sht", as my one hipster physics friend would say.
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