Monday, September 10, 2007
Sabbatical
You might wonder from the headline how someone who hasn't apparently "worked" on a project for about a month to take a "sabbatical" from that same project now.
The answer is simple, I make the rules. In brief, I moved to Staunton about two weeks ago. The job is going well with some stormy weather on occasion, most of those occasions being very shortly before deadline. I'm not entirely comfortable with it yet but I am unbelievably confident that this was far and away the thing to do -- Lebanon would have very clearly only gotten worse had I not taken the opportunity to leave when I did.
In the personal sense, other than Christina, there are new, single, young people here to try to get to know and hang out and hopefully form some new bonds with. It is difficult for me to open up and be myself around new people, particularly when the weak social skills I had had so long to atrophy over the course of living in Lebanon for 17 months, but I feel like I am very slowly coming back and finally once again have something to do with my free time other than spend it with that person in the mirror who has a tendency to get on my nerves.
The other nice thing about there being other single people around is the possibility that I soon may not be single. Not that I have any plans in the short- or long-term to get married, but I am ready to be part of a relationship with its advantages and, apparently inevitably, disadvantages of which I've heard so much about. I'm 25 years old, which I believe is way too old to be as utterly inexperienced in relationships with other people as I am.
My apartment is far and away better than the Lebanon shit hole I used to call home. Among other things I can actually bear the thought of having people over and not being immediately embarrassed by my living conditions. I don't plan on this changing.
Anyway, sorry for the brevity, I don't know when I'll be updating this if at all again so I would suggest that anyone call me on my cell phone.
The answer is simple, I make the rules. In brief, I moved to Staunton about two weeks ago. The job is going well with some stormy weather on occasion, most of those occasions being very shortly before deadline. I'm not entirely comfortable with it yet but I am unbelievably confident that this was far and away the thing to do -- Lebanon would have very clearly only gotten worse had I not taken the opportunity to leave when I did.
In the personal sense, other than Christina, there are new, single, young people here to try to get to know and hang out and hopefully form some new bonds with. It is difficult for me to open up and be myself around new people, particularly when the weak social skills I had had so long to atrophy over the course of living in Lebanon for 17 months, but I feel like I am very slowly coming back and finally once again have something to do with my free time other than spend it with that person in the mirror who has a tendency to get on my nerves.
The other nice thing about there being other single people around is the possibility that I soon may not be single. Not that I have any plans in the short- or long-term to get married, but I am ready to be part of a relationship with its advantages and, apparently inevitably, disadvantages of which I've heard so much about. I'm 25 years old, which I believe is way too old to be as utterly inexperienced in relationships with other people as I am.
My apartment is far and away better than the Lebanon shit hole I used to call home. Among other things I can actually bear the thought of having people over and not being immediately embarrassed by my living conditions. I don't plan on this changing.
Anyway, sorry for the brevity, I don't know when I'll be updating this if at all again so I would suggest that anyone call me on my cell phone.
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