The Modern Day 'Fine Arts'

The Fine Arts as we knew them growing up: Theater/Music, Painting and Sculpture....

The Fine Arts as I know them today: The Art of Procrastination, The Art of Rationalization and The Art of Justification.

The Art of Procrastination: This was my major.. I excelled in every course.. and could in fact win a Pulitzer in this area if they were given and if I could then get whatever paperwork necessary submitted in time.... (which makes the whole thing improbable to say the least)... However, it seems that no matter what steps I take to become more organized, and how good my intentions are... I am always running late in some aspect or another and always have. My earliest memories are from when I was in elementary school, living in The Meadows... We'd be going somewhere as a family, my mom, dad and Scott would be in the car waiting... The car would be running, my dad fuming, and I'd come running out, slamming the door behind me and jump in the car... It got so bad, that one day my dad slammed the car in reverse before I even had both feet in the door.... All you heard was 'DAVID.... Let her get in the car for Christ's sake!'... Sad to say that even the near amputation of limb's by ones own father was not enough to put me on the straight and narrow.... Procrastination is now my unwelcome motivator for all projects, contract writing, and proposals... Case in point, we have a Request for Proposal due to Marketing on Tuesday morning,,, I did not even look at it over the weekend (got it Friday), and will be sweating it all day Monday trying to make sure I get it done and done correctly... My Rationalization... I work better under pressure...

The Art of Rationalization: This was the first of my two minors. As Merriam-Webster defines: The art of creating an excuse or more attractive explanation for something... as in. I work better under pressure... Is this something that only I excel in, or is it possible that this is an unattractive side effect of reaching your 40's? Remember the rationalizations of our teen years? Thinking back, I can't believe that my parents didn't out right laugh in my face more often than they did... These were the junior league of rationalizations,,, As in... Mom, it's really important to show school spirit which actually meant,, Mom we begged and begged until they said we could wear our chear leading outfits to school, it has nothing to do with school spirit, we just want to wear those damn short skirts around all day and see how many guys we can get attention from... Like I said, junior league rationalization.

The Art of Justification: This was the second of my two minors(note how closely the two minors are related). These are the courses I seemed to always want to fail at, but somehow managed to pull in the A's anyway... See I believe Justification's root, the 'Almighty Pre-Requisite' is selfishness. And that, I am sad to say, I am... In being selfish, I am someone who wants things the way I want them, when I want them, how I want them, I can justify my actions with the best of them... I can look at just about any situation and with all sincerity tell you why my decisions, actions and choices were truly the best ones to make. I had gotten much better at these in recent years... much better at 'failing' so to speak... However, here I am, excelling again,,, justifying away... when will this lesson finally be learned I wonder?

Makes me wonder what's in line for my Master's...