Here we go!

So I start Buckies tonight....don't know what to think about the whole thing. But overall I'm excited. I just plan on having fun and feeding my caffeine addiction further.

Time here is passing smoothly into fall. A few hot days with cool evenings and a cold front on the way. I have managed to garden myself into a hole (ha ha) I am now watching carefully so that I don't freeze all my potted plants out since were having nights in the 30's. Not very exciting I know but it allows me to clearly hear the voices in my head. And tell them not to be so critical! So that's life in a nutshell.

SO much to say...and feeling a little spastic

You know that problem procrastinators tend to have? You know the one where you put something off for so long that you then have no idea where to begin or what to add, cut, or otherwise share? Well that's this post. I have been ignoring this site for so many reasons, some that I don't even know. But the bottom line is that I am currently living a boring life and it's kinda nice.

There's no way to know what I would be posting right now if I was still in Korea. Would I have lost my mind by now and be rambling on about how much I hate my job? Would I have adjusted and be finding Korea not such a bad place to live? Would I have run off to London to join a troop of gypsies? Or Thailand to become a beach bum? I don't know.

But the place where I am is working out pretty well and I have to thank God for that. I have a feeling of freedom that I haven't had for a while. I get to make my schedule (without the aid of a translator), I can drive when I please and where I please. I get to garden. I again have some shopping self restraint (but only a little).

Ahhh but then again I have picked up some bad habits too. I have to HUNT down wi-fi so there are some evenings I look like a cheap-skate sitting in the Panera parking lot after 10 PM. I again watch WAY too much TV. Not to mention that I now have an AM line up as well as a PM line up. And there's many more but really, I can't give away ALL my good secrets now can I?

But soon my life of leisure will be ending since I have to find gainful employment. Substituting and Starbuck's are what I've settled for. Now before you go putting your two cents in (and somehow manage to stick your foot in your mouth) these are the choices that I feel for this time period are the best for me. And I am looking forward to them. I wanted to stay low stress and yet not have to consider pregnancy to gain government assistance as a 3rd job option. I think this is going to allow me to do that. Plus, really, me with the equivalent of a coffee i.v. you gotta know this is something close to heaven for me. Other than that I'm just trying to stay out of trouble, ya dig?

In a word....

"The past is our definition. We may strive, with good reason, to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it, but we will escape it only by adding something better to it."

- Wendell Berry (1934~) American Farmer, Educator, Poet, Conservationist

For many good reasons and lame excuses it's been a long time since I have posted and for that I beseech you for forgiveness. But there has been a lot happening and then I found this quote and it seemed to sum a lot of things up for me. The bottom line, things have to change to redefine what my past has made me. For all the things that have been stripped away a new layer must be added to protect and enhance what is beneath. So while this may be my last post FROM Korea I am sure that this is not my last reflection on the place nor the end to my posting.

Torrents anyone?

Hey so I'm a little slow but it seems that TVTorrents is up and running again. Yeah !

Down Time

Well here I sit in Teadrops the place that most definitely qualifies as a home location. It's changed as all things do and as it was in constant new business flux before this is no surprise. But here I am AND there is free wireless. People just come here when ever you can't find me because this is my new office.

Anyway. Back from Toronto and enjoyed the conference. I even learned a few things, about science that is. I also had fun with Bev in Cali. Um so yeah that's about all I'm willing to divulge at this moment since there is a plethora if people watching to do and some Enviro Sci S&B that I have to work on.

Long Post Short

K so there hasn't been a lot for me to post while here in the US because I have avoided all things of consequence.

Went to Michigan to see Luna for a week. That was good. This year for the 4th we watched it rain instead of colored fog. Definetly not an upgrade.

I keep passing family in friends like Romeo and Juliet when I am not on a plane to someplace else. Lucky for all of us there are no priest passing out potions anywhere in the vicinity.

Yes I love driving and no it was not hard to get back into the drivers seat.

Just so you all know I'm sitting in the Parking Lot of Panera stealing wireless internet at 12:00 AM and in the morn I shall arise and drive to Columbia again.

Saw Weezer and relieved highschool and a few moments from plan period this year. F n G man F n G.

Theres the short, unspell checked, spastic, random version of the last few weeks.

Off to bed for now, hopefull I will post again before I go to SF. And yes I have taken pictures. Too bad I haven't put any of them on-line

KISSES!

bet Columbus didn't have this problem....

Just sitting around cursing modern travel at 4 in the morning, since it seems that jet lag has a tighter hold on me than I thought it could. It seems I've been napping at night for 3 hours, exhausted all day and then whenever I try to take a nap my body misinterprets this as bedtime. Ugh!

Made it!!

So despite a long and tiring trip I'm back in KC. Strangely all my time in Korea has yet to have a negative effect on my transition back into polite society. Restaurants? Easy. Family? Catching up nicely. Shopping? Wellll have yet to try that but I have a feeling all will be well.

I will no doubt expand more on many other subjects but for now the crowning glory of the trip had to be my introduction into finding wireless internet at the airport. Man love the first class lounges, they just broadcast that connection all up and down the terminal.

Off to go clog my arteries with family breakfast. MMMmmmmmm biscuits and gravy. I'm in love!