Vuelta a la rutina.... por lo menos el verano se acerca....
I hear you folks. The misadventures and adventures of Daniel have quieted as of late. Somehow, even with my mad prose skills I can't inject drama into the commute, the coding, the hollow pursuit of the next caffeine fix from Harbucks to Harbucks. Hark! Where has this la vida loca gone, where now there is only la vida cotidiana (quotidian)?
Hear me world, tomorrow I shall climb mountains! Okay, in actuality, I shall climb rock walls, but doing so with the imagination of Walter Mitty better befits my budget and pitiful fear tolerance. I think I'm going to continue to make it a point to try something new every other month, to ce la vie to ennui. I guess the theme for this National “Daniel Avoid Dying of Boredom” month is Spiderman....Let me know if anyone has suggestions for the next theme. I'm thinking it's going to be “get of your arse and submit some articles“ next month (which hopefully I can link to from this blog).
We just got some season passes to Six Flags, so luckily there will be some more fun before the next trip abroad. I've got to do some more research and get the tickets this week, but it will be Honduras this July -- scuba diving and more Spanish classes. I'm hoping it's like the brochures and I'll see the biggest fish in the ocean -- the whale shark (but when is anything like the brochures). So far I haven't been able to speak much Spanish to stay in practice, but I've been reading lots of magazines and I'm about 4th of the way through an insanely difficult novel I bought. I'm thinking to make this journal bilingual so that I write it as well.
In other news, I'm about finished with my application to Peace Corps. I know there's a fifty-fifty chance, but I hope I can report here in six months that I'll be out of the country for two or three years doing some good. Although, if I end up teaching IT, I'm ambivalent, what if they've never had the annoyance of SPAM in their inbox, their hard drive crashing, cubicle confinement, or the countless umpteen side effects of this technomanic world?
Even if I don't get accepted, I've come to the conclusion that what I value the most right now in the wider world, is experience. I don't want to climb ladders simply because I have already put my foot on the first rung. It is time to be homeless, carless, possessionless, with a bus ticket, a knapsack, and a notebook.
Hear me world, tomorrow I shall climb mountains! Okay, in actuality, I shall climb rock walls, but doing so with the imagination of Walter Mitty better befits my budget and pitiful fear tolerance. I think I'm going to continue to make it a point to try something new every other month, to ce la vie to ennui. I guess the theme for this National “Daniel Avoid Dying of Boredom” month is Spiderman....Let me know if anyone has suggestions for the next theme. I'm thinking it's going to be “get of your arse and submit some articles“ next month (which hopefully I can link to from this blog).
We just got some season passes to Six Flags, so luckily there will be some more fun before the next trip abroad. I've got to do some more research and get the tickets this week, but it will be Honduras this July -- scuba diving and more Spanish classes. I'm hoping it's like the brochures and I'll see the biggest fish in the ocean -- the whale shark (but when is anything like the brochures). So far I haven't been able to speak much Spanish to stay in practice, but I've been reading lots of magazines and I'm about 4th of the way through an insanely difficult novel I bought. I'm thinking to make this journal bilingual so that I write it as well.
In other news, I'm about finished with my application to Peace Corps. I know there's a fifty-fifty chance, but I hope I can report here in six months that I'll be out of the country for two or three years doing some good. Although, if I end up teaching IT, I'm ambivalent, what if they've never had the annoyance of SPAM in their inbox, their hard drive crashing, cubicle confinement, or the countless umpteen side effects of this technomanic world?
Even if I don't get accepted, I've come to the conclusion that what I value the most right now in the wider world, is experience. I don't want to climb ladders simply because I have already put my foot on the first rung. It is time to be homeless, carless, possessionless, with a bus ticket, a knapsack, and a notebook.
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