[the mixed metaphor is intentional]
So ... I found my own blog -- a forgotten blog, to be sure -- totally by accident ... I don't even want to try & describe how that happened -- but it did.
Anyway, I read my last post, from late October, 2010 (that's just over FOUR YEARS AGO), & two things struck me:
1) That blog post -- about the NC State Fair -- was actually pretty fucking good! ... and
2) The differences between then & now are VAST & really difficult to sum up.
But I'm gonna attempt a "sort of" summary of those differences ... Bear with me, O Nonexistent Reader ... I'm doin my best here.
I now live in Atlanta. Roswell, Georgia, to be precise. I have a life partner, the mother of my daughter, Charlotte Isis P-----. I have two step children, J-----, female, age 13; & G------, male, age 11.
Charlotte was born on April 28, 2011 at 12:58 PM. She is now 3 and a half years old. She is my hero & the light of my life & the source of 70-90% of my frustration (sources of frustration: myself 45-79%; my wife 25-45%; my job 25-95%; my family 10-99.99999% [goes up during holidays]; politics 15-90%; religion 5-99%; hypocrisy 85-99%; "New Math" 99.999999999999%).
I work in an Atlanta restaurant as a server & bartender; it's the only job I've had in Atlanta, & I love my job in a way that I never thought would be possible. I NEVER drive to work thinking "Oh God I do NOT want to go to [restaurant] today" which is something I NEVER thought possible.
I have always wanted to teach, but haven't really set myself up for that while I've been here. But I wanna start working on that.
I'm gonna have to continue this tomorrow. In the meantime, invisible reader, go read my previous post, about the fair. It's hilarious.
