Archive for the ‘Ivona’ tag
Slump
So it’s no surprise that I haven’t been keeping up with this blog, and the truth is that I’ve been in a pretty major slump lately, in just about all aspects of my life. My cousin Isabelle put it nicely when she called it “transition depression” over lunch a few weeks ago. I’m “graduating” in 9 days, though I have to be back here in the fall to finish up the last of my courses. I had tried to take 27 credits this semester and it turned into a train wreck; I have a habit of taking off more than I can chew and then being all surprised when it doesn’t exactly pan out the way I want it to. Read the rest of this entry »
Great news, not so great post
The Vineyard Gazette, where I formerly interned and freelanced a bit, sent me a few articles I had written to get my portfolio together. They only found three so far, apparently because the system they used to archive back then was a little wonky, but they’ll get more to me soon. Tomorrow I’ll scan them in and post them for your enjoyment.
I also found my old moleskine notebooks that are filled with great little notes I can expand on for material. Expect it to be a good weekend content-wise, which should make up for last night and tonight. Ivona gave me a good piece of advice on writing tonight, although it’s something I knew intuitively but was trying to ignore; I’m not giving this blog the time it deserves. I may be forcing myself to write every day, but that doesn’t mean anything if I’m writing at 10 or 11 pm every night just rushing something out there so I don’t have to pay one of you goons five dollars.
Boring post is boring. Better ones tomorrow.
On marriage
When people ask me if I’m happy I got married, I generally tell them it’s the best decision I’ve ever made, and every day with Ivona affirms that. People ask me why I got married so young, and while there are a lot of reasons, sometimes I just say “I guess I was the marrying type,” which really means “I’m sick of people asking me this shit.” I have canned responses for tons of questions. It probably comes from years of driving buses and cabs, and being asked the same questions constantly. But my answers about marriage, while they may be canned, are also deeply true. It’s not being married that’s so great as much as it is the person I’m married to, of course. But you know what I mean.
Not much to say
I had a good day, and I guess I’ll leave it at that. Enjoyed my classes, got a letter of recommendation from a professor I respect that was better than I could have imagined, came home and made French onion soup and fudge with the wife and finally got around to watching the first episode of The Wire. Ivona didn’t like it because it’s not fun (she loves Entourage and the Sopranos because they’re fun shows, but The Wire is a little too serious for her I guess).
That’s about it, I guess. Nothing earth-shatteringly amazing, but an all-around good day. But let’s be honest, I just posted so none of you vultures will ask for money.
Social life (revised: first drunk post wooo!)
I’ll preface this post with the disclaimer that I’m just a little drunk, and I blame Alex for that entirely.
Tonight I got out of my rut of social inactvity – my buddy T.J. was supposed to do that last weekend with his wine and cheese party, but it was delayed until tomorrow due to snow, so my only human contact for the last week was Ivona. Don’t get me wrong, that’s pretty ok with me, and I’ve enjoyed watching episode after episode of The Office while she’s been at work, but I realized today how much I’ve missed varied social interaction this past month; it was great to meet new people in a new environment, although I’ll admit it takes some warming up to new surroundings for me. Alex has probably noticed this more than anyone, but I think in the past couple years I’ve become increasingly uptight, and it really helps me unwind to go out and have a few drinks and relax a little bit. I don’t mean to say I need a couple drinks to relax and talk with people, but it helps. (I’M NOT AN ALCOHOLIC I SWEAR.)
