The Chronicles of the Voluntarily Unemployed

Well, today’s “The Way I See It #283″ is an enlightening tidbit o’wisdom:

“The most important thing in life is to stop saying “I wish” and start saying “I will”. Consider nothing impossible then treat possibilities as probabilities.”

Now, coming from David Copperfield (who I always thought looked like Bob Saget’s twin and perhaps a distant cousin of Howard Stern), that’s powerful stuff. Anyone who can rig the Statue of Liberty disappearing from sight has to be an expert in tapping into the human psyche.

This has supported me in my newest resolution for self-improvement. And let me preface by saying that the original idea for what I’m about to say emanated from a conversation at 1 am this morning with *here comes the shout out* MY WONDERFUL COUSIN MONICA SOOD. And I hereby declare:

I WILL give up celebrity gossip websites for 1 month (until May 15, 2008). And possibly forever. Possibly.

Why would I do such a thing when it’s arguably just a good clean socially acceptable guilty pleasure? Well, to begin I know way too much about the life of the lives of celebrity tarts whose claim to fame is their latest DUI. And because it subconsciously skews my concepts of living a good life (photoshopped thinness and vacuous dialogue about the tribulations affecting modern day celebrities). I’ve come to realize I live vicariously through these gossip rags, and the satisfaction I get about seeing what Madonna wore to the gym yesterday amounts to nothing (I STILL LOVE YOU MADONNA!!!). In fact it’s a large opportunity cost when I consider I could theoretically be learning about Quantum Physics, or the countries of Africa, or scrapbooking or…you get the idea. It’s a time sucker, and I’m going to devote that time to more productive endeavours, such as the aforementioned activities.

So can the girl who has met more celebrities than is possibly normal start this intellectual cleanse of the mind, typing fingers, and soul? Allow me to clean out my cache and bookmarks, and please, pray for Mojo.