A Day To Remember In Future Years
"In future years, you might remember today as one of the best days of your life, Virgo. Romance should be going beautifully. You could exchange deeply felt words of love with your partner. The future looks bright, and you should be full of enthusiastic plans for pursuing what you really want to do. You should also be feeling especially strong, energetic, healthy, and ready to try anything. A journey could be coming up soon." -Says today's Virgo horoscope, and already I feel it in the works. A beautiful sunny morning at 7:30, I hear the birds of spring and have the drive and motivation to contact the Coast Guard and get my next Merchant Mariner job underway; literally. For the past two years I've been attending Maine Maritime Academy, and though I love the school, it's high costs eventually outweighed my views of practical future use. So far I'm on my own sort of 'homeschooling' pursuit of achieving a 500 ton license. I have many questions, a checklist from the USCG, and an ever-strengthening desire to achieve a name for myself in the sailing world. ...Well, a new and more mature name that is. Temporarily taking classes at SMCC I am brushing up on old knowledge while I job search and get my bearings straight. The trouble is in getting a little more twisted up than I was before. The last time I studied here was around 2008 having started in 2005, and so my mind was confused by the sudden and disliked choice to return here. For a moment at the end of the winter, I thought I was 20 again! But this time I chose not to connect with people from the past, or fall into habits from back in the day, by the end of the semester here I've managed to come away with at least the knowledge of my actual age, a newfound practice for correctly using commas, and the drive to get the heck out of here! Now don't get me wrong, I've always loved Maine and intend to always live here, especially in the long term. But for at least a time, I'm interested in pursuing Alaska or Washington, if only to get it out of my system. I have no desire to travel, but from what I've learned of visiting San Francisco, once I'm out there I love it. I do also know I've always felt the primal call from the homeland to visit England Scotland and Ireland, so those will most certainly be checked off the list at some point, and within that same five year plan, I've incorporated learning to be a Musher in Canada too. So I better get my butt in gear! Today, aside from talking to the Coast Guard here about a list of questions that will help direct my next job aim, I'll be packing up my apartment to ready it for storage for my travels and to hand the lease over to my brother Spencer. I'm excited to be able to do that, as his living arrangements have been heading south and it would turn my move into one of the easiest I've ever encountered. He's living a few blocks away from me here in Cape, but I don't see him all that often. We've grown apart sadly, and our energies are on quite different levels. I'm glad for a day or two here or there where we go for food or watch a movie together. He has a very complex diet with many restrictions, and I've decided to go vegan, and eventually raw vegan. It will be challenging as I work on vessels, but overall I'm feeling much healthier. It seems my thoughts are pretty scattered. It's been a long time since I wrote like this, and although I freehand in journals at home and while traveling, it feels different when you know someone will read it. On that note I have been seriously considering some sort of blog or website where I can upload articles I've written while traveling. I'll include an interactive map of where I'm going and have been, as well as photos and maybe a few videos of whales and things. In the long run I'd like to get to a point where I'm noticed if not only for my adventure tales and pursuit of writing while sailing, but maybe noticed by a few magazines or papers where I can eventually be hired for deliveries and write reviews of all the fantastic boats I've worked on. Here's hoping!
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