i know how you work
Well, it's been too long since my last update, but here I'm going to try to catch up a bit. Bear with me.
August 19, 2013 (月)
Q: __________ really bothered you today.
A: I plead the 5th.
August 20, 2013 (火)
Q: Whose team are you on?
A: Nature's.
August 21, 2013 (水)
Q: In 140 characters or fewer, summarize your day.
A: Today was my first day at school, I got a tetanus booster and finally got back to normal - I used gloves to wash dishes.
August 22, 2013 (木)
Q: What can't you forget?
A: In actuality, I forget way more than I would like. I bet I don't remember some really good things.
August 23, 2013 (金)
Q: Yes or no: everyone should have a backup plan.
A: Of course they should. Of course, I've never liked flying by the seat of my pants.
August 24, 2013 (土)
Q: Write your recipe for creativity.
A: With no distractions and no music, sit and take a long look around you.
August 25, 2013 (日)
Q: What would you like to tell your father?
A: "Thank you." Isn't that the best thing to say? My mind is blank otherwise.
August 26, 2013 (月)
Q: What's the best part about your life right now?
A: My daily schedule. Mid-afternoon on is completely free (for now). Ahhh...It's good because I have a lot to do, still...
August 27, 2013 (火)
Q: When was the last time you worked out?
A: I can't even remember... maybe about two months ago, I tried a light jog...didn't turn out good.
August 28, 2013 (水)
Q: How would you describe your victory dance?
A: This is sad to say, but I don't think I have a victory dance.
August 29, 2013 (木)
Q: What did you have for dinner?
A: Brats with apple coleslaw, baked beans w/bacon, apple crisp with vanilla ice cream...a great, low-key birthday dinner.
August 30, 2013 (金)
Q: What's your simplest pleasure?
A: Right now it would be jumping (diving, actually) into a cool pool. The heat is really starting to get to me.
August 31, 2013 (土)
Q: What was the last wedding you attended?
A: I think it was Cass's in 2008, I've lived overseas for most weddings, so... Well, then it might be S & Y's in 2011 in Hakodate, Japan.
(Not-so-)Random Ramble:
I've been thinking a lot lately about life stages; about journeys and destinations and how we don't think that we can ever really "go back". Of course, Robert Frost's famous poem comes to mind:
"Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference."
--"The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost.
But see, I have come back. In so many ways I am back to where my paths diverged - I have come home. And even though way led onto way for a few good years, in the end, it circled back to the beginning. And the funny thing is that it doesn't make me feel older or wiser for the journey - I just feel young again. It's as if I have the remarkable chance to take the other path - the one that I left for another day. Some days, however, I am reminded that I am actually a good deal older than most of the people on this path. It gets to be discomfiting if I think about it too much. Mostly though, I feel incredibly lucky to have a chance at a new career and a different life (not that the last one was all that horrible - it definitely wasn't).
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