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juno_magic.
Ten years ago: I finished college and graduate school in Chicago, after having done some "missions" work with YWAM in Eastern Europe and Southeast Asia. Full of social conscience, I sought to change the world as a high school math teacher. The schools I applied to had other plans. Having a wife and two girls to support already, I took the path more often traveled and entered the wage-slave-dens of corporate America. The world was very simple and well-defined.
Five years ago: I took a job in sunny Florida, doing computer support. My life-partner became my work-partner, and the best two-and-a-half years of my life ensued. I began losing my religion. The world was becoming ever more complex, and a dull undercurrent of terror set in as my definitions began to show their ragged seams.
One year ago: After a year of nightly potatoes, my blue period had come to an end. Everything was sunshine and roses once more. The vigor of my youth was slowly returning, and Zed started dating my favorite bar-wench. I learned the seductive beauty of Madrid and returned to Prague to see it much happier than it was when I was in college. I had relinquished my religious beliefs and most of my definitions.
Yesterday: I reveled in being nine pounds lighter than when I started my diet. Our weekly Saturday morning date rolled lazily on into the afternoon. We had breakfast, sketched out our futures, went shopping for bits that will go intoginger_rose's garb, went to our lovely hairdresser who groomed both hair and face. I love fingers in my beard! We watched Lemony Snicket and I composed a lovely puttanesca of my own for the girls. It was a jewel of a day until an insect entered my skull. I'm still on vacation from any defined faith, and what few definitions I keep are as fluid as I can keep them.
Today: I pieced together a grand omelette of crab, tilapia, spinach, yellow squash, romano and vermont chipotle cheddar. The house has begun to stir, and the grocery shopping beckons. I get to show off the pretty lady at market! Woot! She has a recording session this afternoon, so the girls and I shall finish the yard work that has been sitting around for the last month, clearing brush and finally getting the bananas into the ground. I also need to fix the broken sprinkler next to my precious cacao tree.
Tomorrow: I will return to my vocation, thinking creative technical thoughts for uncreative people. I will daydream and conspire to find the end to this corporate chapter of my life. I will return home to my lovely family and not miss my lack of definitions. I will thank my lucky stars that I live surrounded by such beautiful women & girls, and even the neurotic dog.
juno_magic.Ten years ago: I finished college and graduate school in Chicago, after having done some "missions" work with YWAM in Eastern Europe and Southeast Asia. Full of social conscience, I sought to change the world as a high school math teacher. The schools I applied to had other plans. Having a wife and two girls to support already, I took the path more often traveled and entered the wage-slave-dens of corporate America. The world was very simple and well-defined.
Five years ago: I took a job in sunny Florida, doing computer support. My life-partner became my work-partner, and the best two-and-a-half years of my life ensued. I began losing my religion. The world was becoming ever more complex, and a dull undercurrent of terror set in as my definitions began to show their ragged seams.
One year ago: After a year of nightly potatoes, my blue period had come to an end. Everything was sunshine and roses once more. The vigor of my youth was slowly returning, and Zed started dating my favorite bar-wench. I learned the seductive beauty of Madrid and returned to Prague to see it much happier than it was when I was in college. I had relinquished my religious beliefs and most of my definitions.
Yesterday: I reveled in being nine pounds lighter than when I started my diet. Our weekly Saturday morning date rolled lazily on into the afternoon. We had breakfast, sketched out our futures, went shopping for bits that will go into
ginger_rose's garb, went to our lovely hairdresser who groomed both hair and face. I love fingers in my beard! We watched Lemony Snicket and I composed a lovely puttanesca of my own for the girls. It was a jewel of a day until an insect entered my skull. I'm still on vacation from any defined faith, and what few definitions I keep are as fluid as I can keep them.Today: I pieced together a grand omelette of crab, tilapia, spinach, yellow squash, romano and vermont chipotle cheddar. The house has begun to stir, and the grocery shopping beckons. I get to show off the pretty lady at market! Woot! She has a recording session this afternoon, so the girls and I shall finish the yard work that has been sitting around for the last month, clearing brush and finally getting the bananas into the ground. I also need to fix the broken sprinkler next to my precious cacao tree.
Tomorrow: I will return to my vocation, thinking creative technical thoughts for uncreative people. I will daydream and conspire to find the end to this corporate chapter of my life. I will return home to my lovely family and not miss my lack of definitions. I will thank my lucky stars that I live surrounded by such beautiful women & girls, and even the neurotic dog.
