gtd applications & mall adventure

With classes starting on the 7th, I've been demoing various GTD applications.  After a hour of downloading, various fiddling and deleting, I've finally decided on my Mac's iCal app. (it all comes fullcircle, I'm sorry to have doubted you, iCal)  For those who are using PCs or Linux, try Thinking Rock.  It's a nifty project planner/thought organizer.  The most difficult part of planning is differentiating what you need to do with what you really need to do.  GTD isn't a cure-all for procrastinators, more of a idea-categorizer.  (ex: studying=high priority, buying a life-size replica of Hugh Laurie for 'extra-curricular activity'= higher priority)

Cleaned up, wore my best dress shirt I bought from Banana Republic, put on my freshly ironed pants and went to the mall. (<--idiot)  Aside from the pool, running trail and campus, I rarely go out.  (Oh hey, now, don't judge me!)  

I had lunch at a Japanese rotating-conveyer belt restaurant. (^ see pic)  The atmosphere was very urban; the projector played clips of various city life in Japan, presumably to keep the waiting foodies occupied.  Food was unsurprisingly inexpensive.  (I grabbed mostly the lower-end plates)  Today, I ignored my vegetarian inclinations and tried the various sushi & katsu dishes. It was... okay.  If you live near a Blue C Sushi or you don't have any other decent sushi place within a 50 mile radius, go ahead and try it.  (Personally, I preferred the Korean-owned Japanese restaurant near my place; portions were larger (tad more expensive) and they give me extra scoops of green-tea ice cream.)

Later, I shuffled around the mall and stopped at the Borders store.  

Borders Books inspired haiku:

Books everywhere

Pretentious urban beatnik

amazon dot com