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I glanced out the window of the plane and started thinking about how cool fractal-esque patterns in nature are... I took a snapshot to share because 1) I dig this stuff... and B) I like caressing my new camera. Heh.





I sat with Clive Staples Lewis on my flight back from the Springs this morning. We shared some terrible airline food over a few pages of well written thought. I overheard a portly dad teaching his son the ways of commercial airline sheistiness... "You know boy, if you ask for the weird stuff like ginger ale, they give you the whole can." Thanks dad. I hate that my emotions bleed over into this blog. I have things on my mind that I want to journal about and sometimes forget that I am not the only one reading this... I think I'm going to try to cut back on the personal blogging and keep my entries a bit further from the emotional introspection that sometimes sneaks a few sentences in here or there... I wear my heart on my sleeve sometimes. December is an incredibly busy month for me... both at work and at home. After Christmas, I plan on spending as much time as possible in Colorado. My resume is almost updated. I don't know what I'm doing. I just know it feels right. I drank quite a few shots last night on a semi-empty stomach. I don't have the energy right now to recount my evening, but the highlight was (of course) spending some time with EL. I also met this tiny little dog that liked to eat my hair. I wrote drunken hoo-ha poetry... which usually is never for anyone but me... but these days my thoughts are finding their way back to a special someone more and more often. I sang Harry Connick Jr. karaoke. Stop laughing. I picked up a cheesy bar nickname from the local Colorado bar-flies. No, you don't need to know what it is. I didn't sleep well last night at all... I kept waking up and could never get comfortable... just like the last time I was leaving Springs. It was much harder to go this time. I need to drink more water. My lips are killing me... it's so hard to keep them protected in the dry atmospheric conditions in Colorado. I sat slightly behind and across from a woman carrying an infant that was completely passed out for most of the trip. A tiny baby hand was sticking out in the aisle with tiny baby fingers wiggling around as (apparently) dreams of good things were transpiring. I watched those little fingers wiggle with fascination for some time... kids are amazing. My seat was the closest seat to the turbines driving the plane and it was uncomfortably hot because no one would turn on their little air thingies. I took a cab to the office upon arrival and it looks like I'm going to be working for a while. There were more layoffs today while I was enroute back... people I knew... people that I didn't think would get laid off. No one is safe. Welcome to the X-Files. I'm really sleepy... really, really sleepy.