"What I know now that I didn't know in September"

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I like blogging. I like being able to post pictures of what I’ve been doing, since my work lends itself so well to photography. I type faster than I write and I like being able to ramble on at great length and really say what I mean. (Not mutually exclusive, contrary to popular belief.) I particularly like it when people tell me that they read my blog and they think it’s terribly clever. Keep it up, devoted admirers. 

I have learned, and this is a big one, to ask people for help. I have all these horrible back problems that we needn’t go into, and I knew I wanted to dig a whacking great hole in my backyard, and that that would involve maneuvering pickaxes, slinging large stones, and pain and suffering in general. So I asked my large and well-muscled guy friends, and some girlfriends as well, to basically do it for me, and to my surprise they all said they would like nothing better. And I didn’t lift a finger. 

Also, I was worried about money, and I almost went without some things that I needed because I assumed they would cost so much that I shouldn’t even call, e.g. getting a load of sawdust from Cayuga Lumber and getting the Kulp Lobby space for our show. But on the off chance that we might be able to work something out I called these people up anyway, and what do you know, it was all free. So I would say don’t write off something you want before you’ve given it a try. 

Enfin, I say, things are possible. Things you wouldn’t think are possible, are eminently possible. The most important thing I can say to any future WISE student is don’t limit yourself; don’t shirk the big projects, don’t think “such and such would be so cool but I couldn’t do it because of x y or z”. X y and z are crap. Obstacles can be got round. Do the greatest thing you can think of, something you want to do because you love it. Start larger than life because you can always trim later, but if you do something you know will be easy at the outset it’s hard to make it anything but boring.