Remember, remember

Hey, have you seen “V for Vendetta” yet!? Well, I was just thinking “Remember, remember, the ___th of November.” It’s November already somehow. In a little more than a month, I’ll be driving with Andy back to Wheeling for Christmas. There will be lots of driving and two wedding showers, and so many decisions to make.

In the meantime, I feel very much in a holding pattern, which I should try to enjoy before the Vortex of Christmas and moving into the “less than 9 months before the wedding” category. I was trying to remember last year, and it all was this horrifying blur of “I should be working on my prelim, I should be working on my prelim.” And it became a clear goal; it became a hoop I jumped through.

And now here I am on the other side wondering what I should be doing with my life, careerwise. I’ve fallen behind on my running/exercising, and my mood has just generally gotten awful, at least for me. The prelim burns you out: all that effort focused on just one thing, and suddenly the thing is gone in 2 hours, and you don’t realize that it took 3 months to work up the courage for it, and it may take 3 months to get back down to normal.



I’m riding high on the quarter-life crisis cart, and I know it. I’m in an age category where I can no longer consider myself anything but an adult. I’m getting married. I have contemporaries on myspace telling me they have more than one kid already. Children, taxes, divorce, houses, bodies starting to deteriorate a bit. . . It seems all too soon, sometimes, but when else would it come?