Oops!

Well, I mentioned on here yesterday that I thought that the year anniversary of this blog was coming up. I have since looked more closely, and I started this blog on 18 September 2005, so the year date has already passed.

Sue me!

I forgot to mention, also, that one of the movies Sue and I saw recently was Beerfest, the latest Broken Lizard movie, from the same people who did Super Troopers. Beerfest was fun, I viewed it as a live action cartoon. Good doofy fun.

Onto deeper things, work continues to go well. It's funny, because I'm not even at the three month mark (that'll be on October 10th), but it feels like I've been there much longer, and not in a bad way. Of course, I'm still figuring stuff out, like where to put items to file away, but overall, it's going well. Having a title like "Assistant Director," gets some attention when you ask people to do things, but there's also relationship building that has to happen, because titles only go so far.

I'm beginning to get calls from other offices, people looking for assistance, or even my opinion about approaches to initiatives, oddly enough. It's fun, but also something to get used to.

Tomorrow, I'll be consolidating my list of stuff to talk about on the next episode of Pseudocertainty. It should be fun, as Joe and I haven't recorded an episode in quite awhile.

NP: Brian Eno + David Byrne - Mea Culpa

Year!

You know, I'm coming up on the one year anniversary of doing this blog. That is, if it hasn't already passed yet. I hope you've enjoyed going on this voyage of life with me. I'm sure it hasn't always been scintillating, but life is lived in the moments between exciting happenings.

For basic daily routine today, I did laundry and dishes. We also put up some more stuff on our walls, but there's more to do. I organized the remaining art (mainly Sue's stuff, which is quite good) a little better, so it didn't look as much like a mess. Over the next day or so, we'll get the rest of the stuff up, or at least decide what will go up where.

This Friday, Joe J. and I are planning on recording another episode of Pseudocertainty. This will be the first one recorded down here in NJ, while Joe is in Boston. I hope that the internet connection is still good enough to let Skype work.

I realized the other day that this is the first time in years that my "center of gravity" isn't Boston, but now the New York/New Jersey area. What I mean by this is that, even when I was out at grad school in Michigan, Boston was a place that was very easy to return to. It's a place where a lot of life happened. Now, that "center" has changed back to the New York/New Jersey area. It's not a bad thing, and maybe it's more measured by what major metropolitan area is closest, but it is very noticable, for me at least. Except for when I was out in East Lansing, I haven't been more than 2.5 hours from Boston since 1989. That's now different.

I do enjoy being back in the New York area, it'll allow me to see family more often, and see New York friends that I've felt a little neglectful about, but I do miss the easy access to Boston. I'm sure we'll get up there again, possibly even before the year is out, but it is a change.

NP: Magma - K.A III

Audience!

You know, you go away from blogging for a few days, and people can't stop asking when you'll blog again!

Okay, when I say people, I mean two, and one of them was my mom. But, it's an audience, and so, I write...

I like to do these blogs in the evening, after Sue goes to bed. It gives me some time when writing won't take away from our awake time together. It's not that this is private in any way, Sue reads it, so it's not that, I just like the quiet of doing this now. I haven't done any blogging recently, in the last week or so, because I've been going to bed earlier. I've been really tired starting around 11ish. I figured my body needed rest, so the blog was sacrificed.

The most exciting news in the world of Lord over here is that Sue has been offered, and has accepted a position over in Manhattan at The New School. I won't go into the details, as it's really her business, but she has a great job, and is going to do fantastic with it. I think it'll be a good move for her. If she wants to take classes there, she can, which will be fun for her.

Once she gets in a good rhythm with the job, we'll be able to figure out our budget for savings, what we can do for future vacations, and other stuff. It'll be fun! It appears that we'll both get the same amount of vacation, and that we'll both have three day weekends during the summer. Good stuff.

Recent movies we've seen, with a thumbs up/thumbs down score:

• Snakes on a Plane: Thumbs up, but not as goofy as I was hoping...
• Little Miss Sunshine: Thumbs up, I enjoyed it, but it could have had a bit more of a resolution at the end. I would have liked to see a little more wrapping up.
• The Last Kiss: Thumbs up, but again, not a very deep film. A number of things happened, but you didn't really get into the characters as much as I would have liked.

I think that's all the movies for the past few weeks. I'm a fairly easy movie viewer. I generally will only see things that I think I will like.

That's all for now... More to come soon. I think I'm very close to the one year anniversary of this blog, which will call for some reflection, I'm sure...

NP: King Crimson - Exiles (20 Mar 1974)