Accomplishments

Accompaniment: "Mr. E's Beautiful Blues", Eels

There's nothing quite like feeling really accomplished for doing absolutely nothing. I'm an expert at it, really. Take today for example. I was up until 4:00am last night playing Skyrim. Why? To finish that one quest I really wanted to get done before Thanksgiving break. Was it real life? No. Did it really matter that much? No. Was there any reason at all not to go to sleep and finish the quest tomorrow? No. But I did it anyway, I feel good about it.

I tried to go to sleep, but I was too awake. Plus the fact that Merry and Pippin are nocturnal....they started making some strange noises about 4:15, and I had to get up and check on them. Apparently Pippin has been dragging his teeth along the plastic base of his cage, which says to me that he needs a different chew toy. All rats need chew toys, and I have some wooden fruit-flavored chews for my babies, but they don't seem to like them much. Now I know for sure. Time to change that. Feeling accomplished for making a decision, I refilled their water bottle and crawled back into bed.

2 hours later, my alarm goes off. After five minutes of 'sleep-in-haze', I get up. Usually Frost is up before me for our 8am astronomy class, but today she wasn't. This is not surprising nor a big deal- our teacher doesn't take attendance, and all of her lectures are featured online for the super-lazy. Generally Frost and I try to make it to class, but if we feel extremely miserable upon waking up, we don't bother. But for some reason I felt accomplished for getting up and going to class, despite the conditions of the morning being too much for my dearest Frosty. Like I said, feeling good about nothing. I didn't learn much of anything in astronomy today that I hadn't learned in 7th grade science, and with class hosted online, there's nothing to be proud of. Frost certainly didn't fail or do less than me by not going to class, she just opted for more sleep. I do the same most days. And yet I feel accomplished for no apparent reason.

Sometimes feeling accomplished for nothing just makes you feel good. You know? Almost like, hey, I needed to do something right today and there it was. I finished a quest. I made a decision. I went to class.

Some days it's just about the little things :D