So what's happening? Last day! Well, I still have my final exam but Trevor thinks it will take a couple weeks due to planning complexity (and I agree).

So let's discuss today.

My biggest accomplishment today was taking the social hubbing that I did yesterday in English and enlarging it. I wanted to be talking to guys I don't usually talk to in an effort to expand the warm feelings in the class.

Today we had our mid-term. I was the first to finish so I tidied up my desk and headed outside to wait for others. Finally some guy came out that I had never talked to before. He was looking out over the handrail outside our classroom at the beautiful Washington scenery of assorted firs, and pine trees. I broke the ice by telling him how I loved Seattle for being so beautiful just about everywhere you look. I mean, we're in an "ugly" part of the city and yet we've got this awesome view. He agreed while sighing and breathing in the peaceful view. From there he asked me if I've always lived in Seattle and I returned the favor. We branched into his profession, why he's back at school, his opinion on the mid-term, etc., etc.

So I had one person connected. The classroom door opens and a woman comes out that I've talked to before so I pull her into the conversation by asking about her mid-term. Mid-term is the easy conversational catch all if you're trying to start a conversation with any classmates on mid term day. Seriously. It's a subject that just doesn't get old, but for one night only.

Then it's just more of the same. Someone comes out, stands within ear shot, I lasso them in, repeat. At one point I had gathered a group of about 8 or so people. It got to the point where there were subgroups forming and side conversations but everyone could just jump from conversation to conversation at will. It's a great feeling to get people talking like that.

I also wanted to reach another milestone of trying for this one cute girl's email or number or something in my calculus class. I thought of a good idea but way too late in the class to use it. This is my last day though so I wanted to try it to just be able to say that I did my best now and so I don't just end up saying I'll do it "someday". Whatever that means.

For some background, this girl asks me for help every class period. I walk her through examples and explain the concepts, etc. So today at the end of class I asked her if I should give her my email address in case she needed anymore help. It was totally awkward and stiff and it totally didn't work. She was kind of confused and said no it was fine because she had a tutor but I think she knew what I meant though because her thank you was especially upbeat. Maybe she didn't fully realize what I was asking until she said thank you, I'm not sure. Either way at least I asked. I'm very happy about that.

One other socially directed thing I did today was to create the framework for a tea popularity contest which I named Tea Fights. Everyday I plan on going into work and pitting one tea versus another, each day pitting the champion from the previous day against that day's tea. Once I run out of flavors I plan to start moving to hot chocolate, apple cider, then eventually even move into office supplies if need be.

I had a piece of paper with Tea Fight written above it. I taped two teas to the paper and wrote versus between them. Then I created a spot under each tea where people could vote. To give a hint as to what people were supposed to do, I marked a vote under each tea just to get the ball rolling.

It worked well! People were writing funny things on the paper and voting (Pomegranate > Chamomile btw) and hopefully it helped to brighten everyone's day a little.

It's been one hell of a long journey but, at the same time, I can't believe it's already over and that I actually survived all thirty days. Some of you have asked what comes next? I've been extremely reluctant to really explore any details with any one and I still am for the most part. I will say that I will definitely continue doing this as a daily practice. Also, there will be more writing but just not as often.

All of this has just made life so much more fun guys. I know so many of you read these posts and think "That's good he's doing that, maybe some day I will." I want to share one thing I learned a while ago about the word "someday". "Someday" means never. If something isn't important enough to you to pick up right this moment and do, then there's no telling when it will be important enough. I just realized actually that when I decided to do this I was thinking about that at the time and realized that I could end up never doing this if I didn't just figure out how to make it happen.

"Someday" means never. I used to think to myself, "I'm going to start as soon as life calms down." Right now, I'm going to school almost full-time (with A's), working full time (as a programmer), going through a divorce (still need to file for it dammit!), trying my best to take care of a dog, maintaining my house, etc., etc. I finally realized life will never calm down. I had to either speed up or get comfy with where I was at. After reading the 4-Hour Work Week by TIm Ferris I decided I could do so much more.

Now, because of that one night when I finally snapped and I realized I was living for "someday", here I am thirty days later and I've accomplished something big. Imagine how I'd feel if I tackled all of my "someday"'s? I started thirty days ago and I'm gonna keep going. Life fucking kicks ass.