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This line haunts me to this day, uttered by my 7th grade math teacher who's teaching style made him the only teacher that i ever respected. (He did things like throw kids out of class, via the window; pretend to take 'pills' (mints); threw my slide rule back at me; pitched a cricket ball at top spin at the black board to wake everyone up; held a kid over the garbage can to make him pickup and eat his the lunch he wastefully chucked; gave me the day off when i aced tests; and finally called other teachers philistines) , hmm those things don't really give him much credibility do they? It wasn't a big deal to me when my 17 b-day passed but as time goes i on i get more and more worried that my time is out, especially when i see kids do amazing things like this, things i still dream of doing but never imagined were possible at 17:

joey(17) - world traveling commercial photog, with people skills and business smarts (sells a $300 training book)
http://strobist.blogspot.com/2007/10/young-blood-chat-with-photographer-joey.html

and this 17 girl making $70k/month on myspace
http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/118/girl-power.html

I feel like i am totally capable of doing these things but as time goes on i haven't made them happen ( sounds like i need an infomercial or something ) at 17 i had the time and drive but i didn't have the business sense or the people skills, over time I've rounded out my people and business ability but now i have precious little time.

Polyphasic sleep is looking good again, I've quit caffeine addiction (including chocolate) and aiming at minimizing meat, i exercise every day and would be able to nap at work, but while taking naps every 4 hours would give me 6 more hours of waking time a day it's cost is 2 hours of time i usually spend awake with other people, and that is the hardest thing to overcome.

I'm sure that I'll figure something out, so here's to proving my math teacher wrong while still putting my people connections first.