Jury Duty and stuff
So I'm sitting in the Multnomah County Jury room. Wee fun! Yesterday was my birthday and the county thought a fitting b-day present was JURY DUTY... haha. At least they have a wireless connection for my laptop to use! Figure it's a good chance to catch up on stuff like LJ updates since it's been forever and a day since I've posted anything!
The biggest news in my life is that I'm dating again. It's funny... for a LOT of reasons I'd been trying to avoid dating... like finances being a mess still... still no solid sense of career... basically feeling like I'm still trying to put my life together here in Protland. BUT... the reality is I don't think we get to choose the timing of such things.
This sneaked in under the my radar in a way. This guy is actually someone I met a LONG time ago.... just out of high school actually. A mutual friend brought him to a D&D game with the group I used to play with in high school. Then somehow we again ran into each other a few years later in Eugene at college. And now several months ago here in Portland. So rather than being a total stranger I could easily keep a certain 'emotional distance' from.... there is some history already with him. I wonder about that too... we seem to have orbited each others lives for a while. Makes me wonder about the idea of fate and stuff!
We'd been spending a lot of time together hanging out... since we have interests in common. The natural progression of things of course led to dating. I must admit I approached it with some apprehension. I still don't feel like I'm super ready for serious dating.... but again... I'm not sure we really get to choose the timing of these things. Besides - I'm really excited about dating him!!
I don't have a lot of other news. My organ building project is still in pieces. I still haven't cut loose into a new career... and am not even sure what direction I want to go with that. I HAVE been more involved with groups in town through sites like Meetup.com trying to explore what different professionals are doing here in town. Networking as they say. I hope that eventually this kind of thing may lead to a job lead in a different field. Sigh.
Politics this year scare me a little. I think I wouldn't be scared except that McCain picked a running mate that has more in common with jerry fallwell than a 'pitbull'. Ultimately her religion scares me (having grown up in a religious system not so different than hers). I think if she were a guy like pat robertson or jerry fallwell... the media would have already torn her to shreds. Because she's a woman ANY negative publicity about her character becomes a gender slam. So if anyone reading this is even thinking about voting Republican.... PLEASE investigate the Assemblies of God church/doctrine. Pay particular attention to their call (perhaps I should say agenda) from god to place themselves in positions of political power in order to bring America 'back to god'. At least make an informed decision before casting your ballot this fall. I would have been a LOT less worried (though still worried as I believe the Republican economic policies break the backs of the lower and middle class americans. I might feel differently if I made 100K a year or more!) if he had picked some of the other women he'd been vetting for his veep! 'nuff said.
Well.... I should post this now in case I'm called. Perhaps I will post again later.... perhaps not. How to kill a day.........
The biggest news in my life is that I'm dating again. It's funny... for a LOT of reasons I'd been trying to avoid dating... like finances being a mess still... still no solid sense of career... basically feeling like I'm still trying to put my life together here in Protland. BUT... the reality is I don't think we get to choose the timing of such things.
This sneaked in under the my radar in a way. This guy is actually someone I met a LONG time ago.... just out of high school actually. A mutual friend brought him to a D&D game with the group I used to play with in high school. Then somehow we again ran into each other a few years later in Eugene at college. And now several months ago here in Portland. So rather than being a total stranger I could easily keep a certain 'emotional distance' from.... there is some history already with him. I wonder about that too... we seem to have orbited each others lives for a while. Makes me wonder about the idea of fate and stuff!
We'd been spending a lot of time together hanging out... since we have interests in common. The natural progression of things of course led to dating. I must admit I approached it with some apprehension. I still don't feel like I'm super ready for serious dating.... but again... I'm not sure we really get to choose the timing of these things. Besides - I'm really excited about dating him!!
I don't have a lot of other news. My organ building project is still in pieces. I still haven't cut loose into a new career... and am not even sure what direction I want to go with that. I HAVE been more involved with groups in town through sites like Meetup.com trying to explore what different professionals are doing here in town. Networking as they say. I hope that eventually this kind of thing may lead to a job lead in a different field. Sigh.
Politics this year scare me a little. I think I wouldn't be scared except that McCain picked a running mate that has more in common with jerry fallwell than a 'pitbull'. Ultimately her religion scares me (having grown up in a religious system not so different than hers). I think if she were a guy like pat robertson or jerry fallwell... the media would have already torn her to shreds. Because she's a woman ANY negative publicity about her character becomes a gender slam. So if anyone reading this is even thinking about voting Republican.... PLEASE investigate the Assemblies of God church/doctrine. Pay particular attention to their call (perhaps I should say agenda) from god to place themselves in positions of political power in order to bring America 'back to god'. At least make an informed decision before casting your ballot this fall. I would have been a LOT less worried (though still worried as I believe the Republican economic policies break the backs of the lower and middle class americans. I might feel differently if I made 100K a year or more!) if he had picked some of the other women he'd been vetting for his veep! 'nuff said.
Well.... I should post this now in case I'm called. Perhaps I will post again later.... perhaps not. How to kill a day.........