These last few days have been ones where the past seems to meet the present and I can't help but look back and ponder my life with a strange sense of wonderment. Have I made these last ten years since high school count? Would my life have been different if...? I'm not exactly questioning myself in any negative sense, it's more of a rhetorical ( Read more... )

Well... Here we are again, another new year. 2008. Yesh, that sounds wild. Two-thousand-eight. Eight. Just let that sink in for a bit. I know I said last year that 2006 was the most wasteful year of my life, but I think 2007 may take the cake. Just like 2006, I coasted through 2007 on savings from my 2005 job at Columbia Cardiology. Only very ( Read more... )

Wow, what a collection of words I've amassed! Six years ago today I started this journal and it's been downhill ever since! Hehehe Just joking! Nahh it's been fun and I've meet a fair share of great people with whom I'm able to really be myself and express so much. It's been worth it all. Here's to another 6 years or even 60 ( Read more... )

For a year, my sister's live-in-boyfriend of about ten whole years, Franko, has known that his job was about to end. He works for a customer support call center helping people with issues with their General Motors vehicles. The place employed hundreds. Last year, the company decided to move the operation to other countries in order to cut costs and ( Read more... )

At around 5:00 PM Pacific time on this day last year, I was leaving my last shift at my most recent employer, Columbia Cardiology. It has now officially been exactly one full year of being unemployed. I feel pretty normal. I mean, I expected to have this wave of hopelessness or depression flow over me but I'm fairly upbeat. It hardly feels like a ( Read more... )

It's been real hot lately. So hot, in fact, that the family has begun pulling out our box fans from the garage and firing them up for the first time since last summer. For me, this has been an unofficial start-of-summer ritual since I was very young. Every year, when it was hot enough to start needing fans around the house, I knew summer was very ( Read more... )

In the 5 or so days I've been home after my 54-day cross-country road trip, I've already gone back to my normal routine. Basically, I'm back to being a computer-slave. But, this time around, I have a new series of projects. Not only do I have the vast chore of sorting and enhancing the 1700 photographs I took on my trip, but there's the DVD of the ( Read more... )

So on Friday, my last day at work, Sarah got me to ask Katie out. She's technically not available anyway, so what's to lose by asking? Apparently some self pride. Katie claimed she was busy all weekend so I called her back today. She said that, given her current situation (Just a couple weeks into a divorce), she doesn't want to start anything. I ( Read more... )

Good friends and readers, today is my 24th birthday!!! Never have I been so reluctant to look back and so eager to look at what's coming down the pipe. Last year at this time, I was confused and apprehensive, unknowing what my future held. This year, with my road trip around the corner and fresh opportunity for employment, I would say I'm in high ( Read more... )

It's been a slow week. Let me mentally prepare for this entry by reading what I wrote last week and start from there... :: reads last week's entry ( Read more... )