someone else's tattoo
i had a conversation with my friend mitchell the other day which articulated something for me that i'd been thinking about but hadn't put into words yet.
mitchell, for the record, is a fellow geologist, and the one guy at a&m who makes me look normal. he's a 6'9, skinny-as-a-twig frank zappa lookalike covered with sailor tattoos. among these is a date, tatooed somewhere on his right bicep, which he pointed out to me sometime last week as i was explaining my situation these days.
he said, 'see, this is the date that i moved back in with my parents. i figured at the time that i never wanted to forget what it felt like, so i went out and got the tattoo.'
and while i'm not that far gone yet (at the very least, i don't want that to be my first tattoo. i mean, really, that's kind of embarrassing to explain.), i understood what he meant by it.
so i think that i'm going to be down here for a while. i may be working for the mad scientist, i may be temping in austin or college station, or i may even end up with a job out of houston for a french seismic/water/oil services corporation- but i'm damn sure not going home until i absolutely have to. i've been saying for the past week or so that i'm down here as long as i can be, and thanks to the generosity of a few others reading this (you know who you are, and thank you), that's longer than i expected.
who would have thought that being in texas would be so liberating?
mitchell, for the record, is a fellow geologist, and the one guy at a&m who makes me look normal. he's a 6'9, skinny-as-a-twig frank zappa lookalike covered with sailor tattoos. among these is a date, tatooed somewhere on his right bicep, which he pointed out to me sometime last week as i was explaining my situation these days.
he said, 'see, this is the date that i moved back in with my parents. i figured at the time that i never wanted to forget what it felt like, so i went out and got the tattoo.'
and while i'm not that far gone yet (at the very least, i don't want that to be my first tattoo. i mean, really, that's kind of embarrassing to explain.), i understood what he meant by it.
so i think that i'm going to be down here for a while. i may be working for the mad scientist, i may be temping in austin or college station, or i may even end up with a job out of houston for a french seismic/water/oil services corporation- but i'm damn sure not going home until i absolutely have to. i've been saying for the past week or so that i'm down here as long as i can be, and thanks to the generosity of a few others reading this (you know who you are, and thank you), that's longer than i expected.
who would have thought that being in texas would be so liberating?