Going back to the roots
January 07, 2008
Happy new year!
Today I must feel what I use to feel, say 20 years ago. Today is the first day of school! That’s right I am going back to school. I am beginning a Japanese course today and hopefully I’ll do that for a few months, barring sudden changes in plans. The classes only run about half the day so I’ll still have time to do other things.
I have good things in sight this year. Last year really sucked ass for me and many others and I hope this year will be better. It’s already off to a great start – I’m not longer under the psychological corporate shackles and am enjoying the freedom! We have plans already this year and they’re off to a good start.
Take right now for instance. I woke up at a reasonable time: 7:30. I made fresh coffee! I have time to check my email and write in my blog for the first time this year! In that job last year, I woke up at an ungodly 5:30, was too sleepy or too rushed to have anything but rotten instant coffee, and couldn’t type a sentence because my fingers had not yet risen from slumber. Ahhh. Good times.
I recently started taking up wing chun kung fu again. It’s great! It’s been about 12 years since I actively practiced and I suck ass. It’s great and I’m back in fairly constant training and conditioning at home right now.
That’s it! I just had this sudden yearning to write here and I have. Christmas was good, New Year’s was good, it’s all good!
January 9th, 2008 at 17:09
Glad to hear things are rolling along well in your life. Don’t forget your lunch box when you go to school!
And keep that camera on you at all times! You just never know when you might find enlightenment.
January 9th, 2008 at 18:07
Yeah I have a rebuttal in mind, I just haven’t found the time to go take it. It’s funny, in Japanese, when you “take” a picture, you can also call it “capture” a picture, very much like in English when you capture the moment.
I am so Japanesed out right now, it’s not even omoshiroi. Fuck.
January 11th, 2008 at 12:11
So when you capture Pokemon in Japan, you’re really taking them in North America. Like the white man took land! I get it!
January 11th, 2008 at 15:39
Dennis… I am laughing, but, where did that suddenly come from?
January 12th, 2008 at 19:44
You know, I have absolutely no idea where that came from. I really have to stop commenting on blog entries when I’m too tired and sleepy to think straight. Things that seem funny to me at that moment in time make absolutely no sense to me when I re-read them in a more alert state!