The Squee Spot

I’m venturing into a scary world this fall; I’m going back to college at the age of …. well, quite a bit more than the 18 and 20 year olds who were queued up with me, waiting patiently to see the people with the answers on campus. I’ll admit, I felt a bit odd when I noticed a couple of the kids (wait, should I say young adults? I’m not sure; I should probably check into college etiquette for second-timers, like me…but I digress) eyeing me askance. I suppose it could have been my book or my iPhone; maybe they just wanted to see what I was reading…in either format. Once I made it to Answer Central, a delightful young woman (see, I CAN be taught!) assisted me. She cleared much of the path between me and getting up for school every morning, and told me how I might be able to leap the last hurdle.  While she was working on her computer terminal, I let my eyes wander, and I spied the cork board on which they post announcements, posters and other flotsam that washes up in any administrative office. I was not only amused, but thrilled to see a humorous bit of inspiration, in the form of a mini paper t-shirt and a slightly the worse for wear plastic skeleton. The shirt’s message was simple, but inspiring. And the skeleton was all about whimsy. Like any good geek gyrl would, I whipped out my iPhone and snapped a picture, to preserve this lesson ¹ for myself, and share it with friends (like you, my fellow geeks!)

The Lesson: You always need to keep your eyes open and your mind receptive to everything around you – animal, vegetable, mineral or extraterrestrial. You can find true inspiration everyday, everywhere. Beyond that, you can share your discovery, your epiphany, with others. Then we can all say, I’m with Awesome!”