In honor of hanging with Mr. Dave Paek last night, I've decided its time to post on Xanga again.  I had made that move that so many have made over to MySpace, but I was starting to miss Xanga, so here I am.  I'm addicted to MySpace, I admit, but it really is completely impersonal...hardly anybody writes blogs on MySpace and it basically turns into an obsession over how many friends you can obtain and how many random comments you can leave on other people's pages and how many surveys you can fill out in a day.  It has it's moments, and it has a much bigger following than Xanga which means it is definitely easier to find long-lost friends and keep in touch and have a way of contacting them even if you don't know their email addresses.  But as far as having the spirit of a blogging website, it really doesn't have very much to offer.  So here I am.

In ten minutes I need to run down the Winthrop Playmakers to do my part in a workshop I am teaching down there with a couple of other people.  Something to keep busy until the summer.  Last night I went over Mr. Matt Callis' and his girlfriend Laura's house, also joined by the aforementioned Mr. Paek and Mr. Dan Wiener as well.  I wanted to take this opportunity to comment on how good it feels to hang out and be yourself with GOOD people that you've known for a LONG time.  It was very refreshing to chill with them last night, being silly, playing a ridiculous board game (well there was no board really) called Apples to Apples....it was 3 in the morning before we realized it.  I hope that I can reestablish the friendships I once had with these people, and everyone else from the old gang, because it really made me happy last night to hang with them.

I really have to run, but I look forward to coming back home in a few hours and writing a longer entry. :)

Please come visit me...

Well it's official now...I start back at my old job on good ol' Staniford St. in good ol' Boston on Monday.  I ironed out the details with both my current job and my once-and-future job yesterday throughout the course of the day.  I'll be taking a slight pay cut to go back to Boston, but I figure it's going to even out with the gas money I was spending to get to Waltham every day, not to mention tolls...and then of course, there's the whole convenience thing.  A 1 hour car commute just changed to a 20 minute train commute.  That, to me, is the most exciting thing.  And the prospect of going into the city every day again is a great feeling too (which I'm sure I will be lamenting after a month or so).  The autumn is my favorite time to be in the city though...so the timing is just perfect for this.  It's funny the things you take for granted when they are no longer a part of your everyday life.  Like just the simple thought of getting off at Bowdoin Station and making the short walk from there to the office is something I am looking forward to.  The familiar faces on the train, the smiles at the coffee shop downstairs from my work, the days when it's just too damn nice out to head straight home, and a detour across the Commons and to Arlington Station instead is in order.  I'm really looking forward to it. 

More later...

Does anyone else sense a calm in the air this morning?

There's something about today that puts a smile on my face, and I can't put my finger on it.  I think it might have something to do with the temperature this morning.  High 60's, my ideal.  For some reason, when the temp. is between 65 and 70 all sorts of good memories come up in my head...like maybe the best times of my life have happened when the thermostat has been at 68 degrees.  I don't know.  But I know I smiled all the way to work this morning, and I know it's 9:30 and I've already had a couple smoke breaks at work, because, well, I just had to.  It's too nice out to sit inside here all day waiting for 4:30 to come.

In addition (and this might be adding to my happiness) it looks like I may be changing jobs sometime soon...going back to the eye doctor I used to work at.  I am sincerely loookign forward to this and hoping that it comes through.  It all came about when I emailed an ex-coworker (Janin) and told her I was unhappy where I was.  Turns out her team over there is short handed due to someone out on maternity leave for 3 months, and they are looking for someone.  So it looks like I might be heading back over there, which I think is great, because it's right in Boston by the Fleet Center, significantly more convenient than my current office out in Waltham.  I actually can't wait to get back there....almost, in a sense, I feel like going back there will be picking up where I left off when my life kinda began to go astray.  It will be a new beginning, or a return to the beginning I had initiated, I guess.  Whatever it is, it will be good to see everyone again and be back in the great atmosphere over there.  Nothing is final yet, so keep your fingers crossed for me.

I have to work now, though, so I'll write more when I get home.

Another day, another dollar.  Another morning with two alarm clocks still ringing as I exit the shower and swear out loud as I listen to the monotonous beep beep beep beep beep coming from my room as I brush my teeth and shave.  Yeah it was a shaving morning...not all mornigns are shaving mornings.  Shaving takes at least an extra 5-7 minutes.  5-7 minutes is like gold in the morning.  Especially a Monday morning.  But it was a good Monday morning, and I was running about 10 minutes ahead of schedule.  SO shaving was in the cards. 

So here I sit, clean-shaven, head still ringing from the confounded beeping beeping beeping of the alarm clock, 2nd 20 oz coffee almost gone.  And it's only 9 am.  This is going to be a long day.