July already. The summer is moving quickly. August and the long weekend in September loom too near on the horizon -already casting their shadows in this direction. When I was younger summers seemed so much longer, time slowed, somebody pushed the pause button and we were all frozen in a snapshot between school years -a timeout called so everyone could relax, recharge, and catch their...
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I think I'm finally getting back into things at work. I took too long of a break. My mind wasn't very sharp the first couple of weeks after I returned. I was pretty much just wandering around the office. No one seemed to notice though.
Road trip is over. It was too hectic. I try and do too much when I have time off -partly because it only happens every couple of years.
Start work again on Monday. It's been awhile. Should be good to get back to doing something.... A little strange to have been off for so long.
Not much else to report...
Start work again on Monday. It's been awhile. Should be good to get back to doing something.... A little strange to have been off for so long.
Not much else to report...
mneylu:
But was the road trip worth it for the adventures?
I will be offline for a bit here before the start of my cross-country roadtrip.
The road trip starts in nine days. I'm excited. I haven't been away in awhile. It'll be nice to get a break. Still no laptop so I'm not sure how much internet access I'll have. I really need to pick one up though so I can check email, pay bills, etc... I'll figure it out. I have a few days still.
With three months left I'm already starting to feel disconnected. Of course, I never really got settled out here -no new lasting friendships, no favorite bars, book stores, or coffee shops -there was just never any time. Funny. Two years and no time -that pretty much sums up the past two years. Two years earnestly shuffling paper across a desk like an immigrant hustler playing...
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fatality:
I actually don't even take photos! All of these were taken in one day for my visitor to show his parents. Well...besides the naked ones 
February coming to an end already. March lands us firmly in 2008. I guess this is what happens every year. The days clip by like telephone polls while you're starring out the window of a train. I want to check them off like items on a To Do list but the list just keeps expanding towards the horizon and I'm always running after it playing...
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la_llorona:
Nice imagery.
I feel like time is racing past as well... I've been feeling that way for years. I guess it's part of getting older.
"Because we don't know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well, yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number, really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, some afternoon that's so deeply a part of your being that you can't even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four or five times more, perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless."
-- Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky
I feel like time is racing past as well... I've been feeling that way for years. I guess it's part of getting older.
"Because we don't know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well, yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number, really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, some afternoon that's so deeply a part of your being that you can't even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four or five times more, perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless."
-- Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky
fatality:
I am very glad I read that.
January turned out to be a decent month. I'm hoping for a slightly better February. The problem is February will be a bit more complicated. I do get a bit of a break though and the weather should finally start to turn nicer. That's always a bonus. For some reason December and January are always miserable and rainy here. We'll see. As long as the...
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I think I'd still give myself a "B" on my resolutions. Maybe a "B+" -wait and see. There's still lots of hard work ahead... but every day, week, month, I stick with it is one step closer to making new habits and getting new routines established -I think that's the key.
la_llorona:
Good for you. There's nothing harder than changing your routine, especially if it's one you generally enjoy. I have been trying to train myself to eat less but at the end of the day, I don't see that much in the way of results. Man, it's hard to diet in this country. Sure there's lots of diet propaganda aruond, and sure there are lots of good choices in the grocery store of things you should eat... but then there's the other stuff: everywhere you look there are restaurants hawking their densely caloric products, and commercials, bilboards, and worse than any of that, social pressure to conform. What's wrong with you? Why are you spoiling our fun by reminding us that we're eating crap? 
Whatever your resolutions may be, I am impressed that a month after New Years Eve, it's even a subject for conversation with you! Cheers.
Whatever your resolutions may be, I am impressed that a month after New Years Eve, it's even a subject for conversation with you! Cheers.
I'd still give myself a B for my resolutions although I sometimes feel like I'm trying to not keep them. I suspect this is true for most of us.
In other news I finally set a departure date. I think the summer will approach even more quickly now that I have an endpoint. Another move. This time I'm going to prepare. Last time I ended...
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In other news I finally set a departure date. I think the summer will approach even more quickly now that I have an endpoint. Another move. This time I'm going to prepare. Last time I ended...
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la_llorona:
Man I envy your plans. I could really use a departure from this town right quick. If you can, do a tour diary for us folks that need vicarious freedom.